(单词翻译:单击)
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。
April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.
愚人节是一个在世界各地不同国家里都庆祝的活动。
It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
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，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.
有一年愚人节，一位英国记者宣布将不再有意大利面条了，因为在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。
Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
许多人跑去当地的超市尽可能多地买意大利面条。
By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
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。
In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water.
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。
They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months.
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。
By the end of the day, more than 10, 000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
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.
许多愚人节玩笑的结局并不十分好玩。
A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool's Day.
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。
He asked her to marry him.
他请求她嫁给他。
The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married.
这位女士很高兴，因为她真的很想结婚。
However, when she said yes, he replied, "April Fool!"
然而当她答应他的求婚时，他却回答说："愚人节，傻瓜！"
That little joke didn't have a very happy ending.
那个小小的玩笑并没有一个十分快乐的结局。
The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
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.
然而，世界上最著名的愚弄人的玩笑之一是发生在十月，而不是在四月。
In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth.
在1938年的十月，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。
He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States.
他描述了他们在哪里着陆，并且讲述了他们如何穿越美国。
Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.
韦尔斯使它听起来如此真实以至于数以百计的人都相信了这个故事，并且整个国家一片恐慌。
By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
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。
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