Who's who 真假难辨
It has never been (explain) why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else. Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the hoax. (Invite) the fire-brigade to put out a non-existent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in. Students often create amusing situations are funny to everyone except the victims.
When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university, he immediately (telephone) the police and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill. As soon as he had hung up, he went over to the workmen and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away, they were not to take him ( serious). He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all (sort)of silly jokes on people. Both the police and the workmen were ( grate) to the student for this piece of advance information.
The student hid in an archway nearby where he could watch and hear everything that went on. Sure enough, a policeman arrived on the scene and politely asked the workmen to go away. When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen, he threatened to remove them force. The workmen told him to do as he pleased and the policeman telephoned for help. Shortly afterwards, four more policemen arrived and (remonstrate)with the workmen. As the men refused to stop working, the police attempted to seize the pneumatic drill. The workmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper. He threatened to call the police. At this, the police pointed out ironically that this would hardly be necessary as the men were already under arrest. Pretending to speak seriously, one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being (take) to the station. Permission was granted and a policeman (accompany) him to a pay phone. Only when he saw that the man was ( actual) telephoning the police did he realize that they had all been the victims of a hoax.
