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1、高中生愚人节英语作文范文 高中生愚人节英语作文范文篇一 April 1st orApril Fools Day is a day of trickery? in the United States. Young students to older professionals? will use this day as a time to play funny tricks? on their fellow students and colleagues?. While sometimes these tricks get a bit mean, the day is really meant

2、for playing light-hearted jokes on other people. One of the best April Fools jokes I have ever seen was at my university. My English professor? came into the class two days after we had all taken an exam and saidI have some very bad news for everyone. It seems that either I am not a good teacher or

3、no one in this class is studying hard enough. I regret ?to inform? you that everyone in this class has failed the exam. Since this was one of three major? exams we had to take in the class, failing the test meant that our final? grades would be very low. Everyone in the class had this near death loo

4、k on their face?. The rest of the class - 45 minutes to be exact?- everyone just sat shocked? waiting for the period to end. Just to note, I had studied several days for the exam and felt confident? I was going to do very well. At the end of the class, our English professor said, “You guys? need to

5、study harder next time. This class is not a joke. With that everyone walked out not saying a word. Later that evening, I checked? my universities telephone message system? and there was a message from my professor. I was really nervous? thinking that he would ask me to visit him in his office (maybe

6、 I did worse than everyone else I thought). I clicked #1 on the message system? and waited to hear what he had to say. His message was simple,April Fools Ladies and Gentleman. I cant believe you all feel for it. Hahaha. You all did well on the exam and I am proud of? you. Hahaha! Happy April Fools D

7、ay Everyone! 高中生愚人节英语作文范文篇二 What is April Fools Day and how did it begin? Well, that is a very good question. The origin of this holiday is rather uncertain. However, the common belief holds that during the reformation of the calendar the date for the New Year was moved from April 1st to January 1st

8、. During that time in history there was no television and no radio so word spread slowly. There were also those who chose to simply ignore the change and those who merely forgot. These people were considered fools and invitations to non-existent parties and other practical jokes were played on them.

9、 All Fools Day is practiced in many parts of the world with practical jokes and sending people on a fools errand. Another thought is that the origin began with the celebrations of the Spring Equinox. While some believe it has to do the a Roman festival known as Hilaria, the end of the Celtic new yea

10、r. In Scotland, April Fools Day lasts 48 hours, day two is know as Taily Day and pranks involving the posterior are played. The victim of the practical joke is referred to as hunting the gowk; the gowk is an extinct cuckoo bird. In France, he is the poisson dAvril or fish of April. The fish in April

11、 are newly hatched and easily caught. French children enjoy taping a picture of a fish on their friends back and yelling out Poisson dAvril! when it is found. Da de los Santos Inocentes is held in Spain on December 28th. This is The Feast of the Holy Innocents. Its celebrated similarly to April Fool

12、s Day with practical jokes. In the United States, pranks are played on just about everybody. Pranks range from the standard Your shoe is untied, to some very creative and elaborate ideas. The only rule is that no one should be harmed. The best jokes are when everybody including the victim laughs. 高中

13、生愚人节英语作文范文篇三 From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to advertisements for the left-handed burger, the tradition of April Fools Day stories in the media has a weird and wonderful history. Here are several of the top ten April Fools Day pranks ever pulled off, as judged by the US webs

14、ite of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people duped. Swiss spaghetti harvest tops the hoax list. In 1957, a BBC television show announced that thanks to a mild winter and the virtual elimination of the spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti cr

15、op. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted a barrage of calls from people wanting to know how to grow their own spaghetti at home. Instant color TV sets in Sweden comes as the third. Sweden in 1962 had only one television channel, which broadcast in black and white

16、. The stations technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks to a newly developed technology, viewers could convert their existing sets to receive color pictures by pulling a nylon stocking over the screen. US ex-president Nixons comeback is placed at sixth. In 1992, US National Publ

17、ic Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new campaign slogan was, I didnt do anything wrong, and I wont do it again. They even had clips of Nixon announcing his candidacy. Listeners flooded the show with calls expressing their outrage. Nixons voice actually turned o

18、ut to be that of impersonator Rich Little. In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexicans for Science and Reason carried an article that the state of Alabama had voted to change the value of pi from 3.14159 to the Biblical value of 3.0. Burger King, an American fast-food chain, published a full-page adve

19、rtisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the Left-Handed Whopper, specially designed for the 32 million left-handed Americans. According to the advertisement, the new burger included the same ingredients as the original, but the condiments were rotated 180 degrees. The chain sai

20、d it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the original right-handed version. Discover Magazine announced in 1995 that a highly respected biologist, Aprile Pazzo (Italian for April Fool), had discovered a new species in Antarctica: the hotheaded naked ice borer. Th

21、e creatures were described as having bony plates on their heads that became burning hot, allowing the animals to bore through ice at high speed. Noted British astronomer Patrick Moore announced on the radio in 1976 that at 9:47 am, a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event, in which Pluto would pass b

22、ehind Jupiter, would cause a gravitational alignment that would reduce the Earths gravity. Moore told listeners that if they jumped in the air at the exact moment of the planetary alignment, they would experience a floating sensation. Hundreds of people called in to report feeling the sensation. 5 / 5