2015年公共英语一级（PETS1）模拟试题（四）

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　　"The headmaster wants you in his office." The ( 1) boy to whom a friend says one of these things gets to ( 2) about and suddenly everyone around ( 3) and shouts, "April Fool!" ( 4) this is April 1, or All fools' Day. In Britain and in some other countries, it is ( 5) to play tricks on people on that day. Children are ( 6) to play harmless jokes on their friends until twelve o'clock at night. Usually they ( 7) to trick other children (child的复数形式) into ( 8) foolish things. It is not only children ( 9) like such jokes. Grown-ups also enjoy tricking others. Even newspapers and radios (10) try to fool the (11) with a clever April Fools' story (故事，新闻报道).

　　Some time ago, for example, a very (12) BBC TV program did a ten-minute (13) about spaghetti (实心面条) trees in Italy (意大利). The reporter (记者) said that (14) the recent bad weather, trees weren't (15) as much spaghetti as they (16) did. He said the (17) of spaghetti would (18). A lot of TV viewers who didn't know what spaghetti is made of actually (19) the story. Some housewives hurried to buy (20) food that was going to become in short supply.

　　1.clever　　　　　　poor　　　　　　　good　　　　　　　excited

　　2.frighten　　　　　consider　　　　　fear　　　　　　　worry

　　3.jumps 　　　　　　speaks　　　　　　laughs　　　　　　quarrels

　　4.For 　　　　　　　As　　　　　　　　Such　　　　　　　 So

　　5.easy　 common　 comfortable　 moral (道德上的，道德，寓意)

　　6.forbidden 　　　　let 　　　　　　　made　　　　　　　permitted

　　7.imagine 　　　　　manage　　　　　　try 　　　　　　　order

　　8.having　　　　　　doing 　　　　　　taking　　　　　　making

　　9.whatever　　　　　however 　　　　　that　　　　　　　those

　　10.in time 　　　　　at times　　　　　all the time　　　for a time

　　11.public　　　　　　readers 　　　　　listeners 　　　　children

　　12.curious 　　　　　famous　　　　　　popular 　　　　　serious