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    April F'ool's Day is on the first day of April. The sport of the holiday is
to play silly but harmless jokes on family members, co-workers, and  friends.
A victim（受害者）of one of these pranks（惡作�。� is called an April
fool.  If one succeeds in tricking someone, one laughs and says "April Fool", and then the person who has been tricked usually laughs, too. This holiday
originated（起源）in France. When the French first adopted（采用）the
Gregorian calendar（日歷）in 1564, some people continued to use the old
calendar to celebrate New Year's Day on April lst. These people were called April Fools. The custom of playing tricks on this day became popular in
France and then spread to many other countries. Here are some typical
pranks:
    Telling somebody to call the zoo and speak to Mr Fox.
    Putting salt in the sugar bowl.
    Setting the clock back an hour.
    Saying to friends, "Oh, my God! You have four holes in your coat-button
holes!"
    Tying a string to a wallet and leaving the wallet in the middle of the side
walk. When someone stops to pick it up, the pranker yanks（猛拉）it out
of reach.  In the United States today, April Fool's jokes are mostly played
by children, who enjoy the holiday very much.
        根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容判斷下列句子的正誤，正確的用“A"表示，錯(cuò)誤的用“B”表示。
(     )1.A victim of one of these pranks is called an April fool.
(     )2. April Fool's Day originated in England.
(     )3. April Fool's jokes are mostly played by children and old men.
(     )4. Setting the clock back an hour is one of the typical pranks.
(     )5. The custom of playing tricks on April lst spread to many other
countries from France.
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       BEIJING (AP)-The government is teaching the people "the right way to spit." A college teaches
students the right way to sit. Two years before holding the Olympic Games, people across Beijing are
on and all-out drive to mind their behavior.
       Visitors are often surprised to see people in China spit phlegm onto the ground.
       Changing all that before the 2008 Summer Games is "important in providing a cultural and historical
legacy to the world for China," said Beijing city official Zhang Huiguang.
       "We will work with newspapers, radio stations, TV stations, the Internet and mobile telephones to
teach people the right way to spit, said Zhang.
       Zhang said her office is organizing a "behavioral training" activity that teaches people to line up for
buses and turning off mobile phones during meetings.
       But spitting is the most serious problem. "You have to spit into a piece of paper or a bag, and then
put it into a dustbin," she explained. Zhang said her office has organized a small group of volunteers who
are going to Beijing's streets to hand out small "spit bags".
       "Public spitters already face fines up to 50 yuan (about $ 7 Cdn)," Zhang said. 
       Others are taking a softer way.
       Lu-chin was born near Beijing, married an American and spent 10 years in the U.S. She said her
heart sank when she and her family returned to live in her homeland and she saw the spitting, littering
and cutting in line. It caused her to start the Pride Institute, a private group that showing the great pleasure
of being more polite.
      "I'm trying to wake up a sense of decency. I know it's there. I saw our beautiful scenery covered
with plastic bags. Sometimes I think I'm the first one to see this and say, 'Why do you treat our country
like a dustbin?' I'm just trying to wake them up and show them they can stop the bad behavior."
       Still others are trying to improve things in a far more traditional way.
       "All of China is looking forward to the Olympics," said Zhang Hui, head of training at the Beijing
Courtesy College.
       "It's really important to improve courtesy before the Games", Zhang said.
       "Everyone knows how to walk, stand and sit," she said. "But we teach them how to do it in a good
way." 
        That means things like sitting, back straight, on the "front one-third" of a chair, she said, "Women
sit with their knees and feet together. Men may sit with their feet slightly apart. If you cross your legs,
you keep the toe of your lifted foot pointing downward." 
        "Every day we teach the students about Confucius and Laozi. Every country has a basis for its
culture." she said. "Confucius and Laozi are our country's basis."
1. government 政府                   2. Confucius 孔子             3. behavior 行為
4. cultural and historical legacy 文化歷史遺產(chǎn)                     5. official 官員
6. organize 組織                        7. volunteer 志愿者           8. fine 罰款
9. soft 溫和的                          10. decency 高雅              11. courtesy 禮儀
12. slightly apart 稍微分開(kāi)         13. basis 基礎(chǔ)
1. Besides (除了) Zhang Huiguang's way to change people's bad behavior, how many other ways have been
    mentioned in the passage?
[     ]
A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
2. What has Zhang Huiguang's office done to teach people good behavior?
[     ]
A. They have given spitters 50 yuan's fine.
B. They have provided a cultural and historical legacy to the world.
C. They have sent volunteers to the streets to give people spit bags.
D. They have worked with the media to teach people the right way to spit.
3. Which picture shows the right way to sit?
[     ]
4. This passage mainly tells us ________.
[     ]
A. from spitting to sitting, Beijing goes all out to look good for Olympics
B. spitting has really become a serious problem in our country
C. foreigners have criticized (批評(píng)) us for our bad behavior
D. Confucius and Laozi are the basis of Chinese culture

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