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Tapescripts Boy1: Have you ever been an April fool, Dave? Boy2: Yes, I have. A friend once invited me to a costume party(化装舞会) . When I got there, I found that he had fooled me. It wasn’t a costume party. I was the only person wearing a costume. I was really embarrassed. How about you, Nick? Boy1: Well, last April Fool’s Day, when my alarm went off I got up, took a shower, got dressed, and went to school. But when I got there, the school was empty. I was the only one there. After an hour, the other kids showed up, and I realized that my brother had fooled me. Boy3: He had? Boy1: Uh-huh. He had changed the clock to an hour earlier. What happened to you on April Fool’s Day, Joe? Boy3: Well, I was sick last April first. My friend called me and told me we had a math test the next day. By the time I got to math class, I was exhausted because I had stayed up all night studying. Then I found out that my friend had fooled me. We didn’t have a test at all! Which of these stories is the most believable? Why? Which is the least believable? Why? Would you be fooled by any of the stories? In 1938, a radio program by actor Orson Welles announced that aliens from Mars had landed on the Earth. Welles was so convincing that hundreds of people believed the story, and panic set off across the whole country. By the time the authorities revealed that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had fled from their homes. One April Fool’s Day, a person in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. However, when she said “Yes”, he replied “April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. marry为动词“嫁，娶，结婚”。表示“嫁给某人”或“娶了某人”都可以用marry sb.。 John is going to mar