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【題目】閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。
What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle defined (定義) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph(勝利) 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.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）A
（2）A
（3）D
（4）C
【解析】本文是一篇議論文，探討了笑話。
（1）考查細節(jié)理解。根據根據第一段中的“According to Aristotle and many other philosophers, all jokes depend mainly on showing inferiority in another person or group of persons...”可知，笑話是依賴于展示出另外一個人或群體的自卑。所以答案是A項。
（2）考查詞義猜測。根據破折號后的“that is，putting it clearly，on showing that they are worse off than ourselves.”可知，inferiority與worse off是同義詞，所以答案是A項。
（3）考查段落大意。根據第二段中的“Showing how much better than other people we are is only one reason we like jokes.”可知，利用笑話表達別人不喜歡接受的態(tài)度是較好的方式，因此這也是我們喜歡笑話的原因之一。所以答案是D項。
（4）考查細節(jié)理解。根據最后一段中的“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.”可知，C項正確。