【新编大学英语】（第一册）Unit 9 C 愚人节（2/4）

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Hints:
         Libyan
        Colonel Gaddafi
        Kung Fu
        Guardian
        Rene Goscinny
        English Channel
        1处破折号，2处连字符
Another story on the same page claimed that the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi was looking for a female Chinese bodyguard, aged 23 to 25, with a university degree and expertise in Kung Fu (not so hard to believe since Gaddafi does use female bodyguards). However, not everyone was amused by these April Fools' jokes, and the newspaper was forced to print a front-page apology.
In Britain, 1 April has increasingly come to be seen by the British press as an occasion to abandon the telling of the truth; instead they try to tell bigger and better lies than their rivals. In 1995, for example, the "archaeology correspondent" of the respected Guardian newspaper wrote a report saying that the village of a well-know French comic-strip character had been discovered in northern France.
The report said that the village as almost exactly as described in the comic strip. Author Rene Goscinny was not aware of its existence when he wrote his stories but he had only one major detail wrong in his description. But Goscinny got the location exactly right – in the right place, on top of a high cliff overlooking the English Channel.