人教版高中英语必修4 Unit 3 A taste of English humour 同步练习3

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阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph(胜利) by showing we're better than someone else in a certain way. According to Aristotle and many other philosophers,all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons?that is,putting it clearly,on showing that they are worse off than ourselves. Jokes raise our good opinion of ourselves at someone else's expense.
Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes. Someone may also use a joke to express their anger or their cruelty or any other kind of action that is not acceptable to us. We feel free to laugh when we hear about someone sliding on a banana skin. The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society. This is probably the reason why some of the jokes,especially those involving cruelty,are so popular with certain people.
Besides,all jokes depend on our enjoyment of laughing at something that is strange and out of place because it's different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant,depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool,we don't laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in,the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke-teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens,and so we laugh.
(1)According to Aristotle,all jokes depend mainly on ________.
A.showing inferiority in another person or group
B.resulting in a sense of success
C.having a good opinion of other people
D.making people laugh unexpectedly
(2)The underlined word “inferiority”(in Paragraph 1) means ________.
A.something that is not as good as something else
B.something that is better than something else
C.someone that is not as good as someone else
D.someone that is better than someone else
(3)What's the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A.Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.
B.When people are angry,they would like to hear jokes.
C.People who like jokes are usually cruel.
D.To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.
(4)What will a good joke teller always try to do?
A.Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.
B.Make different things happen at the same time.
C.Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation.
D.Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.
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We must appoint a new teacher at once to that    (多山的) primary school.
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He closed the door before she could stammer out her    (解释).
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The children are very    (被逗乐的) with the monkey.
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She    (低声说),“Thank you for everything,” before he walked out the door.
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My father was    (喝醉的) almost every day while I was growing up.
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Explain what happened and how the person r    to the blame.
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She employed a private d    to keep a watch on her husband.
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The apartment is in a m    after the party.
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He accompanied her t    her stay there.
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It's a v    city, but the historic center is quite small.
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They spoke in    (whisper)for fear that they should be heard.
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They were much    (amuse)by the magician's trick and were falling about.
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The    (amuse)performance    (amuse)everyone present.
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Your room is always     a mess. You should get it tidied.
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The workmen made so     mess that Mrs. Walker had to spend three days cleaning up afterwards.
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The students all wear the same uniform, so it's hard for me to pick     my son among them.
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The other scientists    (react)to her ideas with a mixture of criticism and silence.
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The lecture,    (start)at 7:00 pm last night, was followed by an observation of the moon with telescopes.
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Sarah pretended to be cheerful,    (say)nothing about the argument.
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The man went to bed    (drink), and when he woke up he found his shoes still on.
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Although he talked half an hour, he couldn't give us a good    (explain)of the reason why he did it.
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Look over there?there's a very long, winding path    (lead)up to the house.
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改正下面每句话中的一处错误。
(1)He whispered me that he was afraid.
   
(2)Parents react strong to the program of quality education.
   
(3)Watson failed twice,so he tried the third time.
   
(4)Sherlock Holmes looked down at the stars in the sky and then asked a question.
   
(5)The young man tried to cleaning the spot with alcohol,but he failed.
   
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假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文,请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误,每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加:在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧),并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除:把多余的词作斜线()划掉。
修改:在错的词下划一横线,并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意:1). 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词;
2). 只允许修改10处
Today is Sunday. The sky is full of sunshine,so does my life. At about 9:00 a.m.,I go to the bookstore with my friends,there was a lot of new books,I didn't know which one to buy,because these books were all use to me. At last,I chose two. At 10:00,we went to the cinema,the film calling Titanic was very popular. It took us about 3 hours to see. Having seen the film,and everyone was deeply moved. Some friends even burst out tears. From the story,I understand that love is noble and valuable. That's a really wonderful film. It is very worth seeing again.
What a happy day!I hope tomorrow I will be even happy!
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请你以The power of humor为话题写一篇短文,谈谈幽默在生活中的重要作用。
词数100左右;文体不限,题目自拟。