摘要：-Mum, it is nice weather. I want to skate this afternoon. -Don’t you think the ice on the lake is too thin to your weight? A. stand B. bear C. catch D. take ⅱ.cloze test Have you ever thought of the possibility that the earth will be invaded by the people from other Planets? The evening of October 30th, was just like any other 1 Sunday night to most of the people of America. Many families were at home 2 the papers or listening to the radio. There were two programmes that night which 3 large audiences. One was a comedy and the other was a play 4 by the actor-writer Orson Wells. The listeners 5 themselves for an hour of comfortable excitement but, after the opening announcement, the play did not start. 6 there was dance music. Then just as people were beginning to wonder if something had gone wrong, an announcer 7 with a dramatic “news-flash . In an 8 voice, he said that a professor in an observatory had just noticed “some gas explosions on the planet of Mars . This news was 9 by a set of rapid on-the-spot broadcasts. These told the uneasy listeners news that Martians had come to 10 war on the earth. Such reporting made nearly everyone believe the “invasion was really taking place. At nine o’clock that evening, people in the United States had a 11 feeling of fear. In New York City hundreds of families run away in great fear from their houses and ran for 12 to the parks. In San Francisco on the West Coast, citizens ran into the streets and 13 the sky for the invaders. Some people, thinking they were under gas attack, even 14 wet towels and handkerchiefs round their heads. As the play went on that night Orson Wells was 15 to see the studio control room full of police. They were warned about the panic which was 16 traffic and filled the hospitals with screaming women. They ordered that announcements 17 be made pointing out that it was only a radio play, not an 18 news broadcast. The message was given four times 19 the programme ended, but it was not enough to 20 nationwide fear. Further announcements were made as late as midnight.

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