drive sb. crazy / mad      be friends with sb.      

leave out                  prime minister     

to start with             rather than     

in agreement              too hard on oneself     

柠檬       球门;目标       教练     

踢;踹       勇敢;勇气       拉;拖      

点头        同意          过失;缺点     

 迫使                友谊;友情        君主;国王     

 苍白的;灰白的      王后;女王         检查;检验     

 权力;力量          灰白的;昏暗的       财富      

lately      prime      minister     

banker      fame      palace     

weight       shoulder      besides     

 teammate      relief      rather     

 亲爱的同学们，初中生活即将结束了！在此离 别之际，恰逢《中学生英语》征稿，请你以“ A ( n) lucky / unusual / exciting / proud / regretful ( 遗憾 的)/... thing”为题，简要描述一件你亲身经历的、印 象深刻的事情，并谈谈你在这件事中所获得的启示。 

要求:1.写短文前，请用一个恰当的形容词补全下 面的标题，所用形容词可以从上面选取， 也可以自己选择；

2.语句通顺，表达准确，内容连贯；

3.词数不少于80.短文的开头巳给出，不计 人总词数。

A      thing

In the past three years, the life of middle school has impressed me deeply. Many stories happened. The following is one of them.

 Some people have a very poor sense of direction (方 向感差）. 1 .       I have visited a place many times but I may still get lost there next time.

When I was a little girl, I never dared ask strangers the way. 2.   I  hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

Now, I am no longer too shy to ask people for directions, but I often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid giving people wrong directions. If anyone asks me the way somewhere, I would say, “3.      ”

Once on my way to work I was stopped by a man. He asked me if I could tell him the way to the Friendship Building. 4. __ But just as I walked on only a few steps. I realized that he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet someone at my office. 5.       When I just got to my office, the secretary showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how surprised he was when we saw each other at the first sight!

阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框内所给的词 的适当形式填空，每个词限用一次。

April Fools’ Day is a day to play jokes on others. No one knows 1.      this    holiday began but people think it first started in France.

In the 16th century, people 2.      New Year’s Day on April 1. In the middle of 1560s King Charles IX changed it from April 1 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, 3.      others called them April Fools.

Each country celebrates April Fools’ Day 4.      .    In    France,    people  call    the    April Fools “April Fish”. They glue a paper fish to their friends’ backs to 5.       them.    When    he or she finds this, they shout “ April Fish! ”

In England, people play 6     only in the morning. You are a “ noodle ” if 7.

     fools    you.    In    Scotland, April Fools’ Day is 48 hours long. They call an April Fool “ April Gowk”. Gowk is another 8.       for a cuckoo bird.

In America, people play small jokes on their friends and 9.       other people on the

first of April. They 10.      point    down    to your shoes and say, “Your shoelace is untied. ”If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then.

 从方框中选择合适的短语，并用其适当形式填空。

1 . I'11 stay here not      three days.

2. The World Cup      every four years.

3. He broke the window and      .

4. We must        what caused the accident.

5. I didn’t        until    I heard the alarm clock.

6. Mr. Yang is very busy now because he is       a new novel.

7. He left his exercise book at home, so he didn’t        the book.

8.      travel by car,    I’ d prefer to walk.

April 2nd，Monday                 Sunny

   Yesterday we had a rest in the afternoon as usual. After lunch, I phoned my mom in the nearby telephone booth (电话亭）,telling her that I would be back home that day. Hanging up the telephone, I was laughing and thought that mom had been fooled by me and that when I went back the next day and told the truth, she must be very happy.

I forgot the telephone soon. In the midnight, I was waken up by knocks on my door. Opening the door, I found my father standing outside. He asked, “Your mother is worried about you. Why don’t you go back?” I felt guilty and could not answer.

I wanted to tell him that yesterday was April Fool’ s Day, but I could not say a word. Having known that I was all right, my father went away without saying anything. I looked at my watch and it was 1 ：00 a. m. My home is 40 kilometers away.

That morning I went back home after work very early. My parents were still in bed. I saw there were dishes of delicious food on the table and they were still untouched. I could not help tearing cats and dogs.

I have decided not to tell my parents the truth. I will bury it deep in my heart so that it can remind me that    in the    world    not everyone can be fooled !

(   ) 1. How    did the writer ’ s parents feel when

she didn 't come back?

A. Worried.    B. Relaxed.

C. Happy.    D. Angry.

(   ) 2. What    did her parents do after the supper was ready?

A. They ate half of the food.

B. They called their child back.

C. They didn’t eat anything.

D. They left the bad food untouched.

(   ) 3 .  What can we infer (推断）according to the passage?

A. The writer’s parents would argue with her.

B. The writer’s parents knew the truth at last.

C. The writer felt very funny by doing that when she was back.

D. The writer won’ t play this joke on her parents again.

5. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.