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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日是愚人节。

12. C在那一天被愚弄是极有可能的，故不能 “相信”你所看到或听到的一切。

13. D mind后跟动名词，且根据句意可知要用 被动语态。

14. C by表示“被，由”，其前省去了过去分词。

15. B此动作发生在announced之前，故用过 去完成时。

16. B从美国的一边到另一边，用across。

17. C convincing意为“令人信服的”。

18. D spread 意为“传播”。

19. C 20. D “成千上万的人”应为thousands of people。