完形填空
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1─20各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
April Fool’s Day is a western festival. No one
____exactly when and how April Fool’s Day began. However, there are some stories about
____ it came into being. One story
____like this: in the sixteenth-century France, the start of the new year was on April first. It was celebrated
____much the same way
____ it is today with parties and dancing into the late hours of the night. Then in 1562, Pope (教皇) Gregory introduced a new calendar(日历) for the Christian world, and the new year fell on January first. There were some people,
____, who hadn’t heard or didn’t believe the
_____in the date, so they
_____to celebrate New Year’s Day on April first.
____ played tricks on them and called them “April fools”. They tried to make them believe that something false was
____ In France today, April first is called “April Fish”. French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends’________.When the “young fool”
_____this trick, the prankster(恶作剧者) shouts “April Fish!”
Today Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on the first of April. One
____ trick on April Fool’s Day is
_____to a friend’s shoe and saying, “Your shoelace is united (你的鞋带开了).” School children might tell a classmate that school has been canceled
____the trick is, if you fail for the joke the prankster shouts “April Fool!”
In Britain today, on the first of April, even________
newspapers, radio and TV programs tell big lies. You________
read a science
____showing that doctors have found a way to cure AIDS,
____you would probably listen to a piece of news about an UFO________
on an island.
21. A.understands | B.knows | C.believes | D.remembers |
22. 23. A.goes | B.tells | C.happens | D.writes |
24. 25. 26. A.however | B.but | C.therefore | D.instead |
27. A.fact | B.news | C.change | D.information |
28. A.remained | B.continued | C.considered | D.went |
29. A.Others | B.Somebody | C.Many | D.Some |
30. A.real | B.true | C.right | D.correct |
31. A.hands | B.faces | C.backs | D.heads |
32. A.discovers | B.sees | C.found | D.notices |
33. A.usual | B.common | C.funny | D.silly |
34. A.looking down | B.pointing down | C.getting down | D.turning down |
35. A.Whenever | B.Whoever | C.Whatever | D.Wherever |
36. A.serious | B.famous | C.interesting | D.important |
37. A.might | B.should | C.could | D.must |
38. A.letter | B.speech | C.writing | D.report |
39. 40. A.lying | B.walking | C.flying | D.landing |