题目内容
先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后根据短文内容和所给首字母,在空格内填入一个适当的词,使短文意思完整。
Today is April Fools’ Day. Do you like playing jokes on o (1)? If you do, today is your day! April Fools’ Day is quite p (2) in the West. In many countries, the day is celebrated with h (3) tricks and jokes. In France, people try to put a paper fish on someone’s b (4). Then they shout “April fish! April fish!” In Portugal, friends happily t (5) flour(面粉) at each other. And in England, tricks are p (6) only before noon; anything later is considered bad luck.
Newspapers and radio and TV stations have also j (7) in the fun. The BBC played a famous trick in 1957 c (8) “The Spaghetti Tree.” It was a TV special that e (9) how spaghetti(意大利面) was grown on trees in Switzerland. Many people were fooled and called BBC to ask how to p (10) a spaghetti tree. The BBC answered, “place a piece of spaghetti in … tomato sauce(酱) and hope for the best.”
Today is a day for laughter and lots of f (11). No matter what tricks you are going to play, remember not to h (12) others.
1. others 2. popular 3. harmless 4. back 5. throw 6. played
7. joined 8. called 9. explained 10. plant 11. fun 12. hurt