[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（美音）] [ti:April Fools' Day] [by:更多学习内容，请到查字典英语网yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:11.32]What was the joke? [00:15.08]'To end our special news bulletin,' [00:18.79]said the voice of the television announcer, 'we're going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria. [00:28.34]Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years. [00:34.57]Two of the leading growers Giuseppe Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, [00:41.31]tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual. [00:50.79]Here you can see two workers who, between them, [00:55.37]have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks. [01:02.84]The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains. [01:13.34]On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself. [01:18.47]She has been helping her husband for thirty years now. [01:23.09]Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed. [01:30.39]This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: [01:36.23]the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition! [01:41.42]Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991. [01:49.69]And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st. [01:56.25]We're now going back to the studio.'