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Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
一. 补全对话。(改编自SectionA2d对话)
根据下面的对话情景,在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子,使对话的意思连贯、完整。
Matt: Hi,Kevin. You look tired. 1._________________________?
Kevin: I had a bad morning. I was late for class.
Matt: 2._________________________, Kevin?
Kevin: Because my alarm clock didn’t go off ! I kept sleeping, and when I woke up it was already 8:00 a.m!
Matt: Oh, no!
Kevin: So I just quickly put on some clothes and rushed out of the door.
Matt: You didn’t eat breakfast?
Kevin: 3.___________________. I didn’t even brush my teeth or wash my face! But before I got to the bus stop, the bus had already left.
Matt: 4._______________________?
Kevin: Carl’s dad saw me on the street and gave me a lift in his car.
Matt: 5.________________________. Well, at least by the time you got to school, you were only five minutes late for class.
二.语篇填空。
第一节(改编自Section B 2b课文)
阅读短文,从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词,每词限用一词。cancel, end, discover, celebrate, land, can, because, be, marry, hundred
April Fool’s Day is a 1.__________that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti 2._______ the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they 3.___________.By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the 4._______ of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the 5._________of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Many April Fool’s jokes may end up 6._________ not very funny. A famous TV star o