My mother _________lots of things and took the subway back home yesterday.

My mother _________lots of things and took the subway back home yesterday.

1. A.
   buys
2. B.
   bought
3. C.
   is buying
4. D.
   is going to buy

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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.