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If you wake up on the 11 day of April and feel that the whole world has gone mad,you are correct. April FooFs Day is the day in a year when you cannot 12 anything you see or hear,and probably will not mind 13 a “fool”. Friends play simple jokes all day long. But one of the world's most famous tricks happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938,a radio program 14 actor Orson Welles announced that aliens from Mars 15 on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving 16 the United States. Welles made it so 17 that hundreds of people believed the story,and fear 18 across the whole country. By the time police officers 19 that the story was a hoax,20 people had left their homes.

11. A. first   B. second

   C. third   D. fourth

12. A. know   B. realize

   C. believe   D. think

13. A. calling   B. called

   C. to be called   D. being called

14. A. of   B. from

   C. by   D. with

15. A. landed   B. had landed

   C. had been landed   D. have landed

16. A. cross   B. across

   C. through   D. on

17. A. convince   B. convinces

   C. convincing   D. convinced

18. A. swam   B. took

   C. turned   D. spread

19. A. speak   B. knew

   C. announced   D. remind

20. A. thousand   B. thousands

   C. thousand of   D. thousands of

Answer 1

11. A 12. C 13. D 14. C 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. C 20. D

II. 11. A 4月1日是愚人節(jié)。

12. C在那一天被愚弄是極有可能的，故不能 “相信”你所看到或聽到的一切。

13. D mind后跟動名詞，且根據(jù)句意可知要用 被動語態(tài)。

14. C by表示“被，由”，其前省去了過去分詞。

15. B此動作發(fā)生在announced之前，故用過 去完成時。

16. B從美國的一邊到另一邊，用across。

17. C convincing意為“令人信服的”。

18. D spread 意為“傳播”。

19. C 20. D “成千上萬的人”應(yīng)為thousands of people。