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新概念英语3 university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else, but self-respecting college students would never do it

L40 Who's who

• phenomenon
  • university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else, but self-respecting college students would never do it
  • students specialize in a particular type of practical joke--the hoax
  • This ridiculous situation made everyone laugh except the victim
• an example
  • beginning
    • a student saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university, so he called the police and told that twostudents dressed up as workmen weretearing up the road
  • development
    • the student told workmen that if a police ordered them away, they were not take him seriously
    • because a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all sorts of silly jokes
    • both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student because of his advance information
  • climax
    • a policeman arrived on the scene and politely asked the workmen to go away but he received a very rude reply
    • the policeman threatened to remove them by force and the workmen told him to do as he pleased
    • the policeman telephoned for help and four policemen arrived and remonstrated with the workmen, but the workmen refused, struggled fiercely and threatened to call the police
    • the police said that wasn′t necessary because they were already under arrest, then a workman aked if he could make a telephone call
    • the police agreed and accompanied him to a pay phone
  • ending
    • when the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax

L40 Who's who

• phenomenon
  • university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else, but self-respecting college students would never do it
  • students specialize in a particular type of practical joke--the hoax
  • This ridiculous situation made everyone laugh except the victim
• an example
  • beginning
    • a student saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university, so he called the police and told that twostudents dressed up as workmen weretearing up the road
  • development
    • the student told workmen that if a police ordered them away, they were not take him seriously
    • because a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all sorts of silly jokes
    • both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student because of his advance information
  • climax
    • a policeman arrived on the scene and politely asked the workmen to go away but he received a very rude reply
    • the policeman threatened to remove them by force and the workmen told him to do as he pleased
    • the policeman telephoned for help and four policemen arrived and remonstrated with the workmen, but the workmen refused, struggled fiercely and threatened to call the police
    • the police said that wasn′t necessary because they were already under arrest, then a workman aked if he could make a telephone call
    • the police agreed and accompanied him to a pay phone
  • ending
    • when the man was actually telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax