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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 you 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

secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared

the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful

accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly 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 himself. "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

resent 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 system.

If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and

apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it's the delivery which

causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised 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 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 sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

41. To make your humor work, you should ________.

[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience

[B] make fun of the disorganized people

[C] address different problems to different people

[D] show sympathy for your listeners

42. The joke about doctors implies that, in the eyes of nurses, they are ________.

[A] impolite to new arrivals

[B] very conscious of their godlike role

[C] entitled to some privileges

[D] very busy even during lunch hours

43. It can be inferred from the text that public services ________.

[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

44. 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

45. The best title for the text may be ________.

[A] Use Humor Effectively

[B] Various Kinds of Humor

[C] Add Humor to Speech

[D] Different Humor Strategies

重点词汇： identify  （辨别；视为同一）即ident+ify，ident词根“同一”，-ify动词后缀“使„„”；identification（识别；身份证明）←identify去y加-ication名词后缀；identical（同一的）←ident+ical形容词后缀。Any man over

thirty identifies his youth with the worst fault he thinks he is

capable of.任何过了三十岁的人都把自己的青年时代视为自认所能犯下的最大错误。

relevant  （相关的；意义重大的）即re+lev+ant，re-前缀，lev词根“升，举”，-ant形容词后缀，故“从„„升起的”→“源自„„的”→相关的。同根词：elevate（升举，提高）←e+lev+ate；elevator（电梯，升降机）←e+lev+at(e)+or。The discovery and use of knowledge has

always been relevant to a humane future.对于一个人道的未来，知识的发现与运用一直是关系重大的。

sympathy  （n.同情；共鸣）即sym+path+y，sym-（=syn-，在p前n变形为m以方便发音，前缀“同”），path词根“感情”，-y抽象名词后缀；sympathize/sympathise（v.同情；共鸣），-ize/-ise为动词后缀；sympathetic（同情的；共鸣的）←sym+path+etic形容词后缀。Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the

human heart.同情心是人类心中仅次于爱的最神圣的情感。Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but

it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's

success.人人都能同情朋友的痛苦，然而共享朋友的成功需要非常优良的品性。To be sympathetic without discrimination is so

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考研英语二2002阅读真题

考研英语二2002阅读真题

2002 Text 1

If you intend using humor in your talk to makepeople smile, you must know

how to identify sharedexperiences and problems. Your humor must berelevant to

the audience and should help to showthem that you are one of them or that youunderstand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whomyou 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 secretaries; alternatively if you areaddressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which

works well becausethe audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shownaround by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, thenew arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of theline, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival askedSt. Peter. "Oh, that's God," came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."

考研英语二2002阅读真题 2

考研英语二2002阅读真题 2

2002 Text 1

If you intend using humor in your talk to makepeople smile, you must know

how to identify sharedexperiences and problems. Your humor must berelevant to

the audience and should help to showthem that you are one of them or that youunderstand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whomyou 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 secretaries; alternatively if you areaddressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.

Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses' convention, of a story which

works well becausethe audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shownaround by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, thenew arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of theline, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival askedSt. Peter. "Oh, that's God," came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he's a doctor."

2002年考研英语真题及答案

2002年考研英语真题及答案

1 2002年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题及答案 Section I Listening Comprehension Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are three parts in this Section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. Now look at Part A in your test booklet. Part A Directions: For Questions 1 - 5, you will hear an introduction about the life of Margaret Welch. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you've heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points) Welch's Personal Information Place of Birth Philadelphia Year of Birth 1901 Transfer to Barnard University (Year) 1920 Major at University 1 Final Degree PhD Year of Marriage 1928 Growing Up In New Guinea Published (Year) 2 Field Study in the South Pacific (Age) 3 Main Interest 4 Professorship at Columbia Started (Year) 5 Death (Age) 77 Part B Directions:

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2002年全国攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试英语试题

第一部分 英语知识应用试题解析

一、文章总体分析

本文主要介绍了计算机的发展对通信革命及人们的生存方式产生的影响。文章第一段从早期的通信革命入手，指出在15、16世纪和20世纪之间发生了很多事情，特别是通信革命加快了步伐。第二段接着提到20世纪计算机的出现极大地改变了这一进程。第三段指出随着计算机的发展，我们步入了一个信息社会。在计算机影响下，通信革命改变了我们的工作和休闲方式，也影响了我们的思考和感知方式。在结尾部分，文章提到，当然，关于这种通信革命在经济、政治、社会和文化各方面的影响是利大于弊还是弊大于利，还存在争议。

二、试题具体解析

1. [A] between在…当中，在空间、位置或时间的中间

[B] before在此之前早些时候，在…前面

[C] since自从…以后，以前

[D] later 后来，稍后，随后

[答案] A

[解析] 本题考核的知识点是：时间副词的用法辨析。

解此题关键看两个方面，一是理解文章第一句话的含义：人们曾对20世纪电视的发展以及15世纪和16世纪印刷术的传播进行了比较。二是注意转折连词yet的用法，yet一般标志着接下来的内容与前面的内容出现了较大的不同，如：She said she would be late, yet

she arrived on time.（她说她会迟到，但她却准时到达了）。文中第二句话结构非常简单，主语和谓语都无法体现与第一句话的强烈对照，这时只能通过空格里填入的时间状语来体现了，因此这个时间副词应与第一句话中的时间状语in the 20th century和 in the 15th and

16th centuries相呼应并对照。接下来关键看这个时间副词表示的是哪个时间段，15、16世纪之前，20世纪之后还是两者之间。其实我们从下文中的the 19th century也可以推断出正确答案是between，即“然而，在这两个时段之间却发生了很多事情”。