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It was Sunday and we were sitting at the table when father suddenly smiled and said to us, "Oh, dear me. I forgot to tell you the good news. There's a letter from Granny. She's coming to see us this afternoon. I'm going to meet her at the station." With these words he went out.
How happy we were! We hadn't seen Granny for half a year and "missed her very much. After lunch my mother and I went shopping. We bought a lot of food that Granny liked. My sister cleaned the house. It was four o'clock when we finished and we sat around the table, waiting for Granny, At last the door opened and in came my father, alone. "Where's Granny?" we asked. Father laughed and said, "April Fools!" "Today is April 1st,April Fool's Day(愚人节) ."
After we heard this we all laughed, too.
根据短文内容判断正误，对的写“T”错的写“F”
(1) Father was happy, because be got a letter from Granny.
(2) Father went out to his office before he finished his lunch.
(3) Granny wanted to see us on April 1st, because that day was Sunday.
(4) My sister did some cleaning at home that day.
(5) Everyone may play a joke on April Fool's Day.
【答案】4. (1) — (5) FFFTT
A bag is useful and the word “bag” is useful， too. It reminds us of an interesting phrase(短语)， i.e. “to let the cat out of the bag”. In meaning it is the same as “to tell the secret”. And there is an old interesting story about it.
Long ago， when farmers wanted to sell chickens at the market， most of the time they would just throw the chickens in cloth bags. But cats were cheaper than chickens， so many farmers would put cats into the cloth bags instead of chickens. One day， a woman asked a man for a chicken. The man gave her a cloth bag in which there was a cat. The woman begged to see the chicken. When the man opened the cloth bag， a big black cat ran out. Not a chicken! The man’s secret was out and everyone knew it.
Now when someone lets out(泄漏) a secret， he “lets the cat out of the bag”. And that is the story where the interesting phrase comes from.