76 April Fools’ Day

名称：76 April Fools’ Day
内容简介：
新概念英语第二册（英音）
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[00:13.58]What was the joke?
[00:17.83]'To end our special news bulletin,'
[00:21.05]said the voice of the television announcer, 'we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria.
[00:29.59]Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.
[00:36.20]Two of the leading growers Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante,
[00:43.00]tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.
[00:52.65]Here you can see two workers who, between them,
[00:56.99]have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.
[01:05.01]The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains.
[01:14.50]On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself.
[01:19.33]She has been helping her husband for thirty years now.
[01:24.35]Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.
[01:32.64]This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest:
[01:39.20]the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition!
[01:43.83]Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.
[01:52.24]And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st.
[01:59.34]We're now going back to the studio.'