2014年考研英語新概念必背作文精選：真假難辨
Lesson 40 Who's who 真假難辨
It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoypractical jokes more than anyone else. Students specialize in a particular typeof practical joke: the hoax. Inviting the fire-brigade to put out anon-existent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting studentwould ever indulge in. Students often create amusing situations which are funnyto everyone except the victims.
When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drilloutside his university, he immediately telephoned the police and informed themthat two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with apneumatic drill. As soon as he had hung up, he went over to the workmen andtold them that if a policeman ordered them to go away, they were not to takehim seriously. He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman and wasplaying all sorts of silly jokes on people. Both the police and the workmenwere grateful to the student for this piece of advance information.
The student hid in an archway nearby where he could watch and heareverything that went on. Sure enough, a policeman arrived on the scene andpolitely asked the workmen to go away. When he received a very rude reply fromone of the workmen, he threatened to remove them by force. The workmen told himto do as he pleased and the policeman telephoned for help. Shortly afterwards,four more policemen arrived and remonstrated with the workmen. As the menrefused to stop working, the police attempted to seize the pneumatic drill. Theworkmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper. He threatened tocall the police. At this, the police pointed out ironically that this wouldhardly be necessary as the men were already under arrest. Pretending to speakseriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call beforebeing taken to the station. Permission was granted and a policeman accompaniedhim to a pay phone. Only when he saw that the man was actually telephoning thepolice did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.
誰也弄不清為什么大學生好像比任何人都更喜歡惡作劇。大學生擅長一種特殊的惡作劇——戲弄人。請消防隊來撲滅一場根本沒有的大火是一種低級騙局，有自尊心的大學生決不會去做。大學生們常常做的是制造一種可笑的局面，除了受害者大家都覺得非常滑稽。
最近有個學生看見兩個工人在大學校門外用風鉆干活，馬上打電話報告警察，說有兩個學生裝扮成工人，正在用風鉆破壞路面。掛上電話后，他又馬上來到工人那兒，告訴他們若有個警察來讓他們走開，不要把他當回事;還對工人說，有個學生常裝扮成警察無聊地同別人開玩笑。警察與工人都對那個學生事先通報情況表示感謝。
那學生躲在附近一拱形門廊里，在那兒可以看見、聽到現場發生的一切。果然，警察來了，有禮貌地請工人離開此地;但其中一個工人粗魯地回了幾句。于是警察威脅要強行使他們離開。工人說，悉聽尊便。警察去打電話叫人。一會兒工夫，又來了4個警察，規勸工人離開。由于工人拒絕停下手中的活，警察想奪風鉆。兩個工人奮力抗爭，其中一個發了火，威脅說要去叫警察。警察聽后譏諷地說，這大可不必，因為他倆已被逮捕了。其中一個工人裝模作樣地問道，在被帶往警察局之前，是否可以打一個電話。警察同意了，陪他來到一個投幣電話前。當他看到那個工人真的是給警察掛電話，才恍然大悟，原來他們都成了一場騙局的受害者。
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