[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:April Fools' Day] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [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.'