英语口语学习网站 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you
must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor
must be relevant to the audience and should help to show ...
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you
must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor
must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that
chancesyou are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in
sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are
addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a
group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their
cretaries; alternatively if you are addressing cretaries, you may
want to comment on their disorganized boss。
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurs' convention, of a
story which works well becau the audience all shared the same view
of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St.
Peter. He es wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny
weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly
矢野浩二老婆until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly
pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the
line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himlf. “Who is
that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that's God,” came the
reply, “but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor。”
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be
in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common
to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make a passing
remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious
bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in
with humor as they will rent an outsider making disparaging remarks
about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if
you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone
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system。
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it
becomes more natural, include a few casual and apparently off-the-
待续的英文cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.
Often it's the delivery which caus the audience to smile, so speak
slowly and remember that a raid eyebrow or an unbelieving look may
help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark。
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on
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a familiar quote “If at first you don't succeed, give up” or a play
on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or
ntences which you can turn about and inject with humor。
21. To make your humor work, you should
[A]take advantage of different kinds of audience。
caterpillars [B]make fun of the disorganized people。
[C]address different problems to different people。
[D]show sympathy for your listeners。
22. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurs,
they are
[A]impolite to new arrivals。
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[B]very conscious of their godlike role。
[C]entitled to some privileges。
[D]very busy even during lunch hours。
23. It can be inferred from the text that public rvices
[A]have benefited many people。
[B]are the focus of public attention。
[C]are an inappropriate subject for humor。
[D]have often been the laughing stock。
24. To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be
delivered
[A]in well-worded language。
[B]as awkwardly as possible。
[C]in exaggerated statements。
[D]as casually as possible。
25. The best title for the text may be [A]U Humor Effectively。
[B]Various Kinds of Humor。
[C]Add Humor to Speech。
[D]Different Humor Strategies。
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21. To make your humor work, you should 要想让你的幽默奏效你应该
[A]take advantage of different kinds of audience。(充分)利用不同的北京环球雅思
coral a
观众。
[B]make fun of the disorganized people。取笑那些做事混乱的人。
[C]address different problems to different people。和不同的人谈不同
的问题。
[D]show sympathy for your listeners。同情你的听众。
【答案】 C
【考点】 段落主旨题。
【分析】 根据题目知道本题考查的是“幽默须知”的内容定位到第一段。
文中说“要使你的听众发笑你就必须知道如何识别你和他人的共同的经历和
问题”这个就是本题解答的关键。加上第一段第三句话“Depending on whom
