"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 harmless 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) BBC TV program did a ten-minute (13) about spaghetti (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 viewers who didn’t know what spaghetti is made of actually (19) the story. Some housewives hurried to buy (20) food that was going to become in short supply.

1.cleverpoor　good　excited

2.frighten　consider　fear　worry

3.jumps speakslaughsquarrels

4.For 　AsSuch　 So

5.easy　 common　 comfortable　 moral (道德上的，道德，寓意)

6.forbidden let 　made　permitted

7.imagine 　managetry 　order

8.havingdoing takingmaking

9.whatever　however 　that　those

10.in time 　at times　all the time　for a time

11.publicreaders 　listeners children

12.curious 　famouspopular 　serious

13.reportannouncement　show　news

14.about with　tofor

15.collectingplanting　producing gathering

16.normally　possibly　seldombefore

17.price quantity　quality 　taste

18.come over go offcome down go up

19.realized　believed　accepted　understood

20.a / the 　all

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