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"The headmaster wants you in his office." The ( 1) boy to whom a friend says one of these things gets to ( 2) about and suddenly everyone around ( 3) and shouts, "April Fool!" ( 4) this is April 1, or All fools' Day. In Britain and in some other countries, it is ( 5) to play tricks on people on that day. Children are ( 6) to play harmless1 jokes on their friends until twelve o'clock at night. Usually they ( 7) to trick other children (child的复数形式) into ( 8) foolish things. It is not only children ( 9) like such jokes. Grown-ups also enjoy tricking others. Even newspapers and radios (10) try to fool the (11) with a clever April Fools' story (故事,新闻报道).
Some time ago, for example, a very (12) BBC2 TV program did a ten-minute (13) about spaghetti3 (实心面条) trees in Italy (意大利). The reporter (记者) said that (14) the recent bad weather, trees weren't (15) as much spaghetti as they (16) did. He said the (17) of spaghetti would (18). A lot of TV viewers4 who didn't know what spaghetti is made of actually (19) the story. Some housewives5 hurried to buy (20) food that was going to become in short supply.
1.clever poor good excited
2.frighten consider fear worry
3.jumps speaks laughs quarrels
4.For As Such So
5.easy common comfortable moral6 (道德上的,道德,寓意)
6.forbidden let made permitted7
7.imagine manage try order
8.having doing taking making
9.whatever however that those
10.in time at times all the time for a time
11.public readers listeners8 children
12.curious famous popular serious
13.report announcement show news
14.about with to for
15.collecting planting producing gathering9
16.normally10 possibly seldom before
17.price quantity quality taste
18.come over go off come down go up
19.realized believed accepted understood
20.a / the all
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