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April Fools’ Day, one of the most light-hearted days of the year, has an unclear origin. Some see
it as a celebration related to the turn of the seasons from winter to spring; others, however, believe that
it 11 the adoption of a new calendar.
Ancient cultures celebrated New Year’s Day on or around April 1, which roughly coincides with
the beginning of spring. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar, which called for New Year’s
Day to be celebrated on January 1. However, many people, either refusing to accept the new date or not
having heard about it, 12 to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1. Other people began to make fun
of these traditionalists, sending them on “fool’s errands” or trying to fool them into believing something
false. 13 , the practice spread throughout Europe and the rest of the world.
Nowadays, on April Fools’ Day, people often 14 to create elaborate hoaxes to fool others.
Newspapers, radio and TV stations, and websites have participated in the April 1 tradition of
making 15 reports in order to fool their audiences. The BBC once reported that Swiss farmers
were experiencing a spaghetti crop and showed scenes of people harvesting noodles from trees. Guess
what? A great number of viewers were fooled.
11. (A) leads to (B) brings out (C) stems from (D) comes across
12. (A) continue (B) continuing (C) to continue (D) continued
13. (A) Precisely (B) Eventually (C) Additionally (D) Literally
14. (A) come to an end (B) go to great lengths (C) put in service (D) hold in store
15. (A) fictional (B) essential (C) ancient (D) subjective
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Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) was an American author and journalist. His writing style,
characterized by simplicity and understatement, influenced modern fiction, as 16 his life of adventure.
Hemingway started his career as a journalist at 17. In the 1920s, he was sent to Europe as a newspaper
correspondent to 17 such events as the Greek Revolution. During this period, he produced his early
important works, including The Sun Also Rises. Among his later works, the most outstanding is The Old
Man and the Sea (1952), which became perhaps his most famous book, finally winning him the Pulitzer
Prize he had long been 18 .
Hemingway liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters—tough, at times primitive people whose
courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this 19 lose hope
and faith. His straightforward prose is particularly effective in his short stories, some of 20 are
collected in Men Without Women (1927). In 1954, Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He died in Idaho in 1961.
16. (A) was (B) being (C) did (D) doing
17. (A) cover (B) approve (C) predict (D) escape
18. (A) planned (B) achieved (C) examined (D) denied
19. (A) limitation (B) classification (C) confrontation (D) modification
20. (A) what (B) which (C) them (D) these