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◆ The most famous trick played
◆ Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool’s Day.
◆ An introduction to April Fool’s Day
◆ A sad story that happened on April Fool’s Day
Reading strategy:(阅读策略)
Carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph
can help you guess what the whole text is about.
Fast reading
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P1: April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in di?erent 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.
P2: One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as
P3: Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said “yes”, he replied, “April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
P4: One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police officers announced that
the story was a hoax, thousands
of people had left their homes.
Careful reading
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Introduction to April Fool’s Day
It __________in different countries
around the world.
Where does it happen?
When does it happen?
What do people do on April Fool’s Day?