2008年P(guān)ETS等級(jí)考試閱讀理解模擬訓(xùn)練二

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說(shuō)明:閱讀下面的短文,從短文后所給各項(xiàng)的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)(A、B、C、D)中選出能填入相應(yīng)空白處的選項(xiàng)。
    "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的復(fù)數(shù)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,新聞報(bào)道).
    Some time ago, for example, a very (12) BBC TV program did a ten-minute (13) about spaghetti (實(shí)心面條) trees in Italy (意大利). The reporter (記者) 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      
    13.report      announcement   show       news       
    14.about       with       to        for        
    15.collecting    planting     producing     gathering     
    16.normally     possibly     seldom      before      
    17.price       quantity     quality      taste       
    18.come over     go off      come down     go up       
    19.realized     believed     accepted     understood    
    20.a         /         the        all        
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