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2d Role-play the conversation.Matt: Why were you late for class today, Kevin?Kevin: My alarm clock didnt _! I kept sleeping, and when I _ it was already 8:00 a.m.!Matt: Oh, no!Kevin: So I just quickly _ some clothes and _the door.Matt: You didnt _?Kevin: No, I didnt even _or _! But before I _ the bus stop, the bus had already left .Matt: Then how did you get here?Kevin: Luckily, Carls dad saw me on the street and _ in his car.Matt: Well, at least by the time you got to school, you were only five minutes late for classLife is full of the unexpected. In May 2001, I found a job in NewYork at the World Trade Center. On September 11, 2001, I arrived at my building at around 8:30 a.m. I was about to go up when I decided to get a coffee first. I went to my favorite coffee place even though it was two blocks east from my office. As I was waiting in line with other office workers, I heard a loud sound. Before I could join the others outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office building. We stared in disbelief at the black smoke rising above the burning building. I felt lucky to be alive.Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on February 21, 2011 and realized that my alarm never went off . I jumped out of bed and went straight to the airport. But by the time I got to the airport, my plane to New Zealand had already taken off . “This is the first holiday Ive taken in a year, and now Ive missed my plane. What bad luck!”I thought to myself. The other planes were full so I had to wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard about the earthquake in New Zealand the day before. My bad luck had unexpectedly turned into a good thing.celebrationApril 1st play tricks and jokes ontake placeApril Fools Day is a celebration that _ in different countries around theworld. It happens on _ every yearand is a day when many people _ allkinds of _ on each other. One April Fools Day, a reporter in Englandannounced that there would _(be/have) no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had_ (stop/stopped) growing spaghetti. Many people_ (ran/run) to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been _(sell out/sold out). Another famous trick in England was when a TV show reported the _ (discover) 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 end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how_ (get) this water.Many April Fools _ (joke) may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fools Day. He asked her _( marry) him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get _ (marry). However, when she said “yes”, he_ ( reply), “April Fool!” That little joke didnt have a very happy ending. The TV star lost _ his girlfriend _ his show.happen , moving, believe, spread, leave,announce, land , describe,One of the worlds most famous_( trick), however, _ in October rather than inApril. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles _ on his radio program that aliens from Mars had _ on the earth. He_where they had landed and told how they were_ across the United States. Welles made it sound so _ (real) that hundreds of people _ the story, and fear_ across the whole country. By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, _ (thousand) of people had _their homes.tricks- actor Orson Welles - on his radio program-aliens-he described -where -how -Welles made it so -that -fear-by the time police officer -thousands people.thousands of 概数两个有 (有s有of )four thousand 确数两个无（无s无of）be about to do 不能与tomorrow, next week 等明确时间连be going to do at the end of 在 末端或尽头by the end of 在(某时间)之前in the end =at last 最后，终于，leave sth. at/in +地点forget 不加地点短语stop doing 终止性stop to do 目的性arrive at+学校，机场，小地方arrive in+国家，城市，大地方sb happen to do sth.sth, happen to sb.whole the whole