Have you ever played jokes on others, especially on April Fool's Day? Have you ever been fooled by others? Tell your story to your partner.
你曾经捉弄过别人吗,特别是在愚人节这天?你曾经被别人捉弄过吗?向你的同伴讲述你的故事。
Read the passage quickly.Then match each paragraph with the main idea.
快速阅读文章。然后把每一段和中心意思搭配起来。
Paragraph 1 The most famous trick played
第一段最著名的恶作剧
Paragraph 2 Examples of funny stories that happened on April Fool's Day
第二段发生在愚人节的有趣的故事的例子
Paragraph 3 An introduction to April Fool's Day
第三段愚人节的介绍
Paragraph 4 A sad story that happened on April Fool's Day
第四段发生在愚人节的一个伤心的故事
USING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
运用背景知识
Carefully reading the first sentence in each paragraph can activate your own knowledge of the topic and help you guess what the whole text is about.
认真阅读每一段的第一句可以激活你自己对于这一话题的知识,并且帮助你猜测整篇文章的内容。
April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April lst every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
愚人节是一个在世界各地不同国家里都庆祝的活动。它是在每年的4月1日,在这一天许多人互相做各种各样的恶作剧和开各种各样的玩笑。
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 they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax ,all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery 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 l0,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
有一年愚人节,一位英国记者宣布将不再有意大利面条了,因为意大利的(从事)意大利面条(种植)的农民已经停止种植意大利面了。许多人跑去当地的超市尽可能多地买意大利面条。当人们意识到这个故事是一个骗局时,全国所有的意大利面条都已经卖光了。另一个著名的恶作剧是,英国一个电视节目报道发现了一种特别的水。他们说这种水能帮助人们减肥,一位顾客仅在四个月之内就减了很多重量。到那天结束时,为了查明怎样得到这种水,已经有一万多人给电视台打电话。
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.
许多愚人节玩笑结局并非十分好玩。一位著名的电视明星曾经在愚人节那天邀请她的女朋友参加他的演出。他请求她嫁给他。这位女士很高兴,因为她真的很想结婚。然而当她答应他的求婚时,他却回答说:“愚人节,傻瓜!”那个小小的
玩笑并没有一个十分快乐的结局。那个电视明星失去了他的女朋友,而且他的节目也被取消了。
One of the world's most famous tricks,however,happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Wells 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.
然而,世界上最著名的愚弄人的玩笑有一个是发生在十月,而不是在四月。在1938年的那个月,演员奥森·韦尔斯通过他的广播节目宣布从火星来的外星人已经在地球上着陆。他描述了他们在哪里着陆,并且讲述了他们如何穿越美国。韦尔斯使它听起来如此真实以至于数以百计的人都相信这个故事,并且举国上下一片恐慌。当警官宣布这个故事是一个骗局时,数千人已经离开了他们的家园。
Read the passage again and answer the questions.
再读一遍文章,回答问题。
1.Why did the supermarkets run out of spaghetti one April Fool's Day?
在一个愚人节为什么超市卖光了意大利面条?
2.What did the TV show say the special water could do?
电视节目说这种特殊的水能做什么?
3.Why did the TV star's joke have a bad ending?
为什么那个电视明星的恶作剧有一个不好的结局?
4.When did Orson Welles tell people about aliens from Mars landing on the earth?
奥森·韦尔斯什么时候告诉人们来自火星的外星人在地球上着陆的?
5.Why clicl so many people believe Orson Welles?
为什么这么多人相信奥森·韦尔斯?
6.Which of these stories is the most believable? Which is the least believable? Why?
这些故事中哪一个是最可信?哪一个是最不可信的?为什么?
7,Would you be fooled by any of these stories?
你被这几个故事中任何一个愚弄了吗?
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in hrackets.
用括号内所给动词的正确形式填空。
1.After the spaghetti story_____(appear) in the news,everyone_____(rush)to the supermarkets.
当意大利面条的故事在新闻中出现之后,大家都冲到了超市。
2.By the time people_____(find out) the story was not true,all the spaghetti in_the supermarkets_____(disappear)
当人们发现这个故事不是真的的时候,超市里所有的意大利面条已经不见了。
3.By the time the day____(end),more than 10,000 people_____(call) the TV station to ask about the special water.
当那天结束时,一万多人给电视台打电话询问这种特殊的水。
4.By the time the show_____(end),the TV star_____(lose) his girlfriend.
当节目结束时,那位电视明星皇羔圭了他的女朋友。
5,By the time police officers_____(tell) the country that the story was a hoax, many people_____(run away) from their homes.
当警官告诉全国的人们这个故事是一个骗局时,许多人已经逃离了他们的家园。
Tell your funny story from 2a to the class. The class will vote for:
把你在2a中的有趣的故事告诉你的同学们。同学们将投票选出:
a.the funniest joke
最有趣的笑话
b.the most embarrassing joke
最令人难堪的笑话
c.the most creative joke
最有创意的笑话
A:What's your story?
你的故事是什么?
B:Well,last year,on the first day of school,my sister put a piece of paper on my back that said"Please say hello. "All morning at school...
嗯,去年,在开学的第一天,我姐姐在我的后背上贴了一张纸务,上面写着:“请说你好。”在学校整个早上……
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