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    　　What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher(哲学家)Aristotle defined(定义)jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph 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(残酷)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)

    The underlined word “inferiority”(in Paragraph 1)means _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    someone that is better than someone else

    B．

    something that is better than something else

    C．

    someone that is as good as someone else

    D．

    something that is not as good as something else

    (2)

    According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on _________．

    [　　]

    A．

    resulting in a sense of success

    B．

    showing inferiority in another person or group

    C．

    having a good opinion of other people

    D．

    making people laugh unexpectedly

    (3)

    What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?

    [　　]

    A．

    To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes．

    B．

    When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes．

    C．

    People who like jokes are usually cruel．

    D．

    Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes．

    (4)

    What will a good joke-teller always try to do?

    [　　]

    A．

    Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation

    B．

    Make different things happen at the same time．

    C．

    Make a sad situation into a pleasant one．

    D．

    Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place．

    答案：1．D;2．B;3．A;4．A;
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    　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

    　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

    　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

    　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

    (1)

    The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    it made Christive evil

    B．

    it was the apple of Eden

    C．

    it came from a forbidden land

    D．

    it was religiously unacceptable

    (2)

    What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

    [　　]

    A．

    The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

    B．

    There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

    C．

    The tomato was still refused in most western countries

    D．

    Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

    (3)

    What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

    [　　]

    A．

    To manke imself a hero

    B．

    To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

    C．

    To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

    D．

    To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

    (4)

    What is the main purpose of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

    B．

    To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

    C．

    To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

    D．

    To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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