When I was young，I liked to play jokes on people I knew, especially on my parents and friends. One day my mother was cooking and I was playing with my younger brother Tony. Suddenly I ran to my mother and said: “Tony fell from the open window!” She was very worried and ran out of the kitchen. Then I said: “Don’t worry, I’m just joking.” My mother shouted at me, “If you do it again, I’ll hit you.”
Another day I went swimming with my friends in the sea. I wanted to play a joke on them. In the beginning I swam fast and I called out “Help!”. All my friends came to help me. However, they found that I was joking. But half an hour later I wasn’t joking. I was so fast, soon I got tired and couldn’t swim on in water. I tried my best to call my friends for help, but this time nobody came to help me.
In the end they found I was telling the truth. They came and saved my life. They took me to the hospital. This is the best lesson in my life. From then on I haven’t joked on anyone.
小题1:When he was young, the writer liked to _______.
| A．play with his brother | B．help his mother cook |
| C．play jokes on people | D．go swimming with his friends |
小题2:What happened when the writer was playing with his brother? ______
| A．He got tired. | B．He played a joke on his mother. |
| C．Tony fell from the open window. | D．His mother hit him. |
小题3:In the beginning, all his friends came to help him because he ______.
| A．swam fast | B．called for help |
| C．would sink in water | D．couldn’t swim on in the water |
小题4:When the writer called his friends for help for the second time, they ______.
| A．took him to the hospital at once |
| B．came and saved him immediately |
| C．thought at first he was joking again |
| D．did nothing because the writer had lied to them |
小题5:The story tells us that ________.
| A．swimming is dangerous |
| B．the writer is a naughty boy |
| C．one can play jokes only on people he knows |
| D．if someone always tells lies, others won’t trust (信任) him |
