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A Fool's Day falls on 1st of April. People  1  forget the significance (意义) of the day.
In March 1980, I was  2  at Durham University with seven other Chinese students. I had  3  to go to
another university after graduation and had  4  application (申请) forms to several  5  . Every morning I
arrived at the porter's office (传达室) and waited my fate. But no  6  came.
On April 1^st, as I was eating my  7  , Huang came in, with a toothbrush  8  in his hand.  9  fearing
that he might forget the important news, he passed me the 10 . "Morning, Wu," he said, "I saw Mr. G this
morning. He told me that a letter had arrived in his office for you from Manchester University, and asked
you to go and get it 11 possible." I jumped with 12 .
I even didn't 13 my breakfast and rushed to Mr. G's office but he wasn't 14 . I then went to the
secretary's room and 15 everything to her. She opened Mr. G's room. I looked at everything. There didn't
seem to be a letter for me. "If he had asked you to pick it up from here," said the secretary, "he would have
put it in 16 or simply left it to me."
Greatly 17 , I walked out of the room and 18 the secretary lock it. 19 the secretary's eyes 20 .
"Sorry," she said. "It's April Fool's Day!"

(     )1. A. sometimes    (     )2. A. staying      (     )3. A. continued    (     )4. A. returned     (     )5. A. people       (     )6. A. application  (     )7. A. dinner       (     )8. A. still        (     )9. A. Because of   (     )10. A. message     (     )11. A. if          (     )12. A. the news    (     )13. A. take        (     )14. A. anywhere    (     )15. A. asked       (     )16. A.the office   (     )17. A. disappoi    (     )18. A. watched     (     )19. A. Quickly     (     )20. A. closed

B. never       B. working     B. planned     B. taken       B. colleges    B. report      B. lunch       B. even        B .As if       B. sign        B. as soon as  B. the letter  B. finish      B. in          B. told       B.his desk     B. disappoin   B. made        B. Strangely   B. opened

C. always        C. visiting      C. managed       C. handed        C. cities        C. reply         C. supper        C. yet           C. After         C. letter        C. when          C. joy           C. complete      C. at            C. explained     C.the room       C. disappointing C. saw           C. Finally       C. brightly

D. seldom                    D. studying                  D. remembered                D. sent                      D. offices                   D. chance                    D. breakfast                 D. already                   D. While                     D. notice                    D. as fast as                D. luck                      D. have                      D. away                      D. answered                  D.an obvious (明显的) place   D. disappointment            D. let                       D. Suddenly                  D. darkened

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