大学英语（三）-3习题及答案
一、阅读理解
April Fool’s Day is traditionally a day to play practical jokes on others, send people on fool’s errands（差事）, and fool the unsuspecting. No
one knows how this holiday began but it was thought to have originated in France. The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. New Year was celebrated on March 25 and celebrations lasted until April 1st. When New Year’s Day as changed from March 25 to January 1st in the
mid-1560’s by King Charles IX, there were some people who still celebrated it on April 1st and those people were called April Fools. Tricks performed on April Fool’s Day range from the simple to th e elaborate. Setting a roommate’s alarm clock back an hour is common. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool’s Day was a fairly detailed documentary about “spaghetti farmers” and how they harvest thei r crop from the spaghetti trees. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, “April Fool!” April Fool’s Day is a “for-fun-only” observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their “significant other” out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It’s simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant（警惕的）, for he may be the next April
Fool!
Each country celebrates April Fool’s differently. In France, the April Fo ol’s is called “April Fish”. The French fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends’ backs. In England, tricks can be played only in the morning. If a trick is played on you, you are a “noodle”.
（4.0 分）1.
April Fool’s Day was first celebrated in_________.
A．England
B．America
C．France
D．Rome
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（4.0 分）2.
According to the old calendar, April 1st was_________.
A．April Fool’s Day
B．New Year’s Day
C．New Year’s Eve
D．a regular day
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（4.0 分）3.
Which is NOT the custom of April Fool’s Day?
A．Calling victims of tricks April Fools.
B．Playing tricks on somebody.
C．Eating out with their family.
D．Celebrating this day just for fun.
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（4.0 分）4.
It can be inferred that on April Fool’s Day people tend to ______.
A．be on guard
B．feel annoyed
C．feel scared
D．be at their best
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（4.0 分）5.
It can be concluded that ______.
A．those who are mentally slow are called April Fools
B．people have been celebrating April Fool’s Day for well over five centuries
C．the celebration of April Fool’s Day is more or less the same.
D．the celebration of April Fool’s Day varies from country to country
得分：4
The comprehension passages on this course are designed to help you increase your reading speed. A higher reading rate, with no loss of comprehension, will help you in other subjects as well as English, and the general principles apply to any language. Naturally, you will not read every book at the same speed. You would expect to read a newspaper, for example, much more
