It was a Monday morning. When a teacher walked into the1, he heard a low voice: “Here is the teacher. I am 2this boring fellow(烦人的家伙) is going to talk about putting in commas(逗号).” It was a boy's3. His name was Bill. He was talking4the boy next to him. The teacher didn't get angry. He said5about it, then he really began to talk about putting in commas, and then he wrote6the sentence: “Bill says the teacher is a boring fellow.” The class7and Bill's face8red. “Now,” said the teacher, “I'll 9you how important commas are.”
He put two commas in the sentence, and now read, “10is a boring fellow.”
"Jack, the headmaster wants you in his office."
The （出乎意料的） words made Jack worry about it and suddenly everyone around laughed and shouted "April Fool", for this was April Fool's Day.
In Britain and in some other （国家）, it is usual and ordinary to play a joke on people on that day. Children are （允许） to play harmless jokes on their friends until twelve o'clock at night. Usually they try to play a joke on other children. Not only children but also grown-ups enjoy a joke on others. Even newspapers and radios at times try to play a joke on the（公众） with a clever April Fool's story.
Some time ago, for example, a very （严肃的） BBC TV program did a ten-minute （报告） about spaghetti trees in Italy. The reporter said that trees weren't produced as much spaghetti as they did last year because of the bad weather. He also said that the （价格）of spaghetti would go up. It was so（可相信的） that some housewives hurried to buy. Soon the food was （卖） out. Later they （发现）it was only a hoax.
He bought food .
My parents run a small store in San Francisco. They always keep a big box by the entrance where people can donate (捐赠) something to our local food bank.
"For some reason, our food- donation box just isn't filling up recently," said my dad.
"Maybe it's time to think of a way to remind people about the food bank," said my mom.
"What about a talent show?" my dad suggested.
"OK, ▲ " said my mom.
So while my parents posted information online, we kids made some signs. My friend Mareya came over to help out.
"I'd like to do an act in the show, but I don't know what to do," I told Mareya.
"Well, since the food-bank thing is about sharing," said Mareya, "why not write a song about that?"
"Writing a song is not a problem," I said. "But it's hard for me to sing it alone!"
She said," What if we sang it together?"
Since Mareya has the world's prettiest voice and also happens to play the guitar, I agreed.
Mareya and I practiced and practiced, and I was feeling pretty good about our act. But on the morning of the performance, Mareya called that she had a stomachache and was not in any shape to perform.
"There's no way I'm going on without you," I told her.
"You've worked so hard," she said. "You'll be great!"
But great is the last word anyone would choose to describe my performance! Without Mareya's guitar and voice to guide me, my song was completely in a mess. And I even forgot half the words.
Remember the sick, heart-racing, hot-faced feeling I was talking about? Well, that's what I was experiencing- more than I ever had before.
Once I was off the steps, my mom gave me a big hug.
"I want to disappear! I've never been so embarrassed(尴尬的) in my life," I said.
Ollie smiled," I think you are really brave."
Indi added, "I now know that you truly can survive(幸存) a lot more embarrassment than you think."
A man got a new car and he was very proud of it. One day, when he came back home, he saw his three-year-old son happily hitting the new car with a toy 1. He broke off the paint on the car. The man was so 2 that he ran to his son, took away his hammer (锤子) from him, and used the hammer to hit the boy's 3 as hard as he could for punishment. The poor boy cried 4 but his father didn't care at all.
When the father calmed down, he took his son to the 5 as soon as he could. Although the doctor tried to save the broken bones, he had to 6 the fingers from both of the boy's hands in the end.
When the boy 7 in the hospital and saw his hands, he innocently (天真地) said, "Daddy, I'm sorry about your car." Then he asked, "But when are my fingers going to grow back?" The father felt very sad and regretted this very much.
Think about this story when someone steps (踩) 8 your feet and you want to argue (争吵) with him. Think first before you 9 your patience with someone. Cars can be broken, 10 bones and hurt feelings often can't. So always remember: excusing is greater than argument and think before you act!
