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1、高中愚人节英语作文范文 中学愚人节英语作文范文 篇1 April fools day is a day to play jokes on others, no one knows how this holiday began but people think it first started in france. in the 16 th century, people celebrated new years day from march 25 to april 1.in the mid1560s king charles ix changed it from march 25 to jan

2、uary 1. but some people still celebrated in on april 1, so others called them april fools. each country celebrates april fools day differently.in france, people call the april fools “april fish”. they tape a paper fish to their friends backs to fool them. when he or she finds this , they shout “apri

3、l fish!” in england, people play jokes only in the morning. you are a “noodle” if someone fools you.in scotland, april fools day is 48 hours long. they call an april fool “april gowk”. gowk is another name for a cuckoo bird.in the america, people play small jokes on their friends and any other peopl

4、e on the first of aprol. they may point down to your shoe and say, “your shoelace is untied.” if you believe them and look down to see, you are an april fool then. 中学愚人节英语作文范文 篇2 In the 16th century, people celebrated New Years Day from March 25 to April 1. In the mid1560s King Charles IX changed it

5、 from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, so others called them April Fools.Each country celebrates April Fools Day differently. In France, people call the April Fools “April Fish”. They tape a paper fish to their friends backs to fool them. When he or she finds th

6、is , they shout “April Fish!”In England, people play jokes only in the morning. You are a “noodle” if someone fools you. In Scotland, April Fools Day is 48 hours long. They call an April Fool “April Gowk”. Gowk is another name for a cuckoo bird.In the America, people play small jokes on their friend

7、s and any other people on the first of Aprol. They may point down to your shoe and say, “ Your shoelace is untied.” If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then. 中学愚人节英语作文范文 篇3 1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. Its April fools Day,

8、a day when people traditionally like to try to make a fool of someone else and laugh at them.There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day, but one explanation is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, which meant that 1st April was no longer the beginning of

9、the year. Those who still celebrated the New Year on 1st April were called fools.So what kind of pranks do people play on April fools Day? Well, there are lots of simple tricks that you can play on your friends. For example, you could wear a black sweater and pull a piece of white thread through it,

10、 so that people try to pull it off. You could change the time on someones alarm clock so that theyre late for work. Or glue a coin to the floor and see how many people try to pick it up.All these are small-scale practical jokes which you might play on one other person or a few people. But theres als

11、o a tradition of large companies attempting to fool a lot of people. For example a burger restaurant once claimed that they were introducing a left-handed burger!In particular, the media often try to make people believe something which is not true. Newspapers publish some ludicrous stories every yea

12、r, although some of them are actually true. Its entertaining to try to guess which stories are true and which are fake. In the April Fools stories, they often include a clue to the fact that its a joke. For example the name of an expert quoted in the article might be an anagram of April Fool.Radio a

13、nd television programmes have also fooled many people by broadcasting reports which are untrue. One programme announced the invention of an amazing new weight-loss product - water which contained minus calories!And one of the most famous hoaxes ever was broadcast by the BBC itself in 1957! A very se

14、rious news programme called Panorama reported on the poor spaghetti harvest in Switzerland, and showed pictures of farmers picking spaghetti from trees! Hundreds of people were taken in and wrote to the BBC asking how to grow their own spaghetti. 中学愚人节英语作文范文 篇4 What is April Fools Day and how did it

15、 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. During that time in history there was no television and no radio

16、 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. All Fools Day is practiced in many parts of the world with practi

17、cal 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 year.In Scotland, April Fools Day lasts 48 hours, day two is know as T

18、aily 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 are newly hatched and easily caught. French children enjoy taping a

19、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 Fools Day with practical jokes.In the United States, pranks are played on

20、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. 中学愚人节英语作文范文 篇5 April 1st orApril Fools Day is a day of trickery? in the U

21、nited 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 for playing light-hearted jokes on other people.One of the best April Fools jokes I ha

22、ve 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 no one in this class is studying hard enough. I regret ?to inform? you that everyone in

23、 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 look on their face?. The rest of the class - 45 minutes to be exact?- everyone just sat sh

24、ocked? 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 study harder next time. This class is not a joke. With that everyone walked out not sayi

25、ng 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 I did worse than everyone else I thought).I clicked #1 on the message system? and waite

26、d 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 Day Everyone! 中学愚人节英语作文范文 篇6 From television revealing that spaghetti grows on trees to adv

27、ertisements 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 website of Museum of Hoaxes for their notoriety, absurdity, and number of people

28、 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 crop. Footage of Swiss farmers pulling strands of spaghetti from trees prompted

29、 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. The stations technical expert appeared on the news to announce that thanks t

30、o 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 Public Radio announced that Richard Nixon was running for president again. His new

31、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 out to be that of impersonator Rich Little.In 1998, a newsletter titled New Mexi

32、cans 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 advertisement in USA Today in 1998 announcing the introduction of the Left-Handed Who

33、pper, 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 said it received thousands of requests for the new burger, as well as orders for the

34、 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. The creatures were described as having bony plates on their heads that became burnin

35、g 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 behind 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.