April Fool’s day is a day     1     people can play jokes on others. No one knows for sure how this holiday began. Some English people hold the     2    (believe) that it began on the day during the 1200s. At that time, King John of England was in     3     habit of making a road out of nearly every path he walked regularly. The citizens of one farm village were aware of this. To protect their grass and farms from being destroyed, they built a fence that prevented the king from walking through their countryside. The king sent a group of soldiers to inform the villagers to remove the fence.     4     hearing that, however, the villagers developed a plan of their own. When the soldiers arrived, the villagers ran around and shouted wildly with things     5    (throw) away everywhere, behaving as if they     6    (go) mad. The soldiers reported to the king that they were so mad as to be beyond punishment. The villagers saved their farmland     7    (success) by tricking the king. Now April’s day     8    (remain) in fashion,     9     the tradition only allows tricks from midnight to noon on April 1st. Those who try to play tricks in the afternoon act as     10    (fool) themselves and are usually laughed at.

Percy Shelley, an English poet, was born on August 4^th, 1792. He is     1    (wide) known as one of the most important     2    (figure) of the Romantic Movement in English literature. Shelley received early education at home and later and     3    (admit) to Eton College at the age of 12, which has a long history of more than 500 years,     4    (date) back to the 15^th century. Then he attended Oxford University shortly after he turned 18.

As     5     romantic poet, some of his poems, like Ode to the West Wind and Ode to A Skylark, are among the most famous poems in English.     6    , in his own time, Shelley was very unpopular for his political and     7    (religion) views. Fortunately, he successively(先后地，连续地) met Byron and Keats and befriended with them during his tour around Europe after he married Mary Godwin, his second wife,     8     later became famous as Mary Shelley, the author of the novel Frankenstein.

About a month before his 30^th birthday, Shelley went to Leghorn    9    (welcome) his friend Leigh Hunt. During the stormy return voyage, his small boat sank and he drowned. It was his body    10    wasn’t washed ashore until days later .

A toy animal might not matter much to the average person,     1     for a child, it could mean the world. When 10­year­old Leon Ashworth’s mom couldn’t afford     2     (buy) him a toy panda he     3     (bad) wanted, he wrote a pitiful note on the toy’s box begging other     4     (shopper) not to buy it. What happened next    5     (be) so heartwarming that it would melt you.

The boy, Leon Ashworth,     6       lives in Liverpool, England with his mom, first saw his beloved “Pandy” at an Asda supermarket. Though he was willing to wait with     7     (patient) until his mom    8       (pay) on June 15th, the store’s staff decided to do something extremely thoughtful after they noticed Leon’s note. They decided to buy it for him.

    9     search of the young author, whom they didn’t know at the time, they posted the note on Facebook and eventually attracted the attention of Debbie Ashworth, who immediately recognized her son’s handwriting. The Asda crew invited the mom and her son back to the store, and had a wonderful surprise for them. “This is     10       best day of my life, ” Leon said to his mom excitedly．