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1、专题03 A taste of English humour第一节阅读理解AWhen Danny Wallace, 26, got bored, he put an ad on the World Wide Web reading simply，“Join Me. Send a passport photo.” A year and a half later his east London flat is the headquarters for a global internetbased “club” whose members carry out good deeds for stran
2、gers every Friday.Its not common for people in London to talk to strangers. If you see someone struggling with something, part of the brain goes “I want to help”. But the trained part of the brain says, “They will think you are mad or going to mug them”， so you walk away.Join Me now has about 3,000
3、members around the world who do an act of kindness every Friday. For example, Im usually out on Friday so I go for one of the standard actsthe unexpected cup of coffee. You might be sitting in a cafe and see an old man in the corner drinking coffee or tea, and you walk up with another cup of whateve
4、r they are drinking, and say, “Ive bought you a coffee” and walk away. Its a pleasure to see the look of surprise on their faces. There can be some suspicion, but I think that was mostly in the early days when I didnt know how to do it properly. I would walk up quite nervously like I was doing somet
5、hing wrong and I didnt know when to leave. In the end, I learned through _trial_and_error_. Sometimes it worked, and other times it didnt. I discovered that you have to walk up with confidence and humour and not “get in their faces”. You say, “This is for you”， then you go. Its hitandrun kindness. A
6、nd there is no point in doing it halfheartedly. Youve got to do it because you really mean it.Join Me is without geographical boundaries, but there are quite a few members in London, and such stories about things happen on the underground or on the buses. One lady got on the bus and put a 10 note do
7、wn and said, “Thats for me and the next nine people.” So at every stop, anyone who got on was told it was paid for. A lot of people were doing this sort of thing anyway. For them its an excuse or reason to do something nice for a complete stranger, and it gives them the confidence to walk up and sta
8、rt chatting.语篇导读本文为记叙文，简述了公益组织“Join Me”的成立和发展，介绍了作者作为成员之一，每周五做一件善事的经历，最后说明了这一组织存在的意义。1When Londoners see someone in trouble, they _.Aoften give a handBstop and ask questionsCpretend not to have seen itDtelephone the police解析 C细节理解题。根据第二段内容可知，伦敦人一般不和陌生人说话，遇到有困难的陌生人会装作没看见一样走开，故选C项。2According to the pa
9、ssage, members of Join Me often _.Aput an advertisement on the World Wide WebBgo out and make friends with strangersCdo an act of kindness every FridayDbuy coffees for the strangers解析 C细节理解题。根据第三段第一句可知，Join Me的成员每周五做一件善事，故选C项。3The underlined expression in the third paragraph possibly means _.Afindin
10、g something very difficultBdoing something without much effortCmaking a few mistakesDexperimenting to get the right result4Which would be the best title for the passage?AHitandrun KindnessBHistory of Join MeCDanny Wallace and Join MeDWhy not Join Me解析 A标题归纳题。本文主要围绕Join Me的成员每周五以做完就跑的方式行善事这一主题来展开，故选A
11、项。BA good joke can be the hardest thing to understand when studying a foreign language. As a recent article in The Guardian newspaper noted, “Theres more to understanding a joke in a foreign language than understanding vocabulary and grammar.”Being able to understand local jokes is often seen as an
12、unbelievable icebreaker for a language learner eager to form friendships with native speakers. “I always felt that humor was a ceiling that I could never break through，” Hannah Ashley, a public relations account manager in London, who once studied Spanish in Madrid, told The Guardian, “I could never
13、 speak to people on the same level as I would speak to a native English speaker. I almost came across as quite a boring person because all I could talk about was facts.”In fact, most of the time, jokes are only funny for people who share a cultural background or understand humor in the same way. Chi
14、neseAmerican comedian Joe Wong found this out firsthand. He had achieved huge success in the US, but when he returned to China in 2008 for his first live show in Beijing, he discovered that people didnt think his Chinese jokes were as funny as his English ones.In Australia, meanwhile many foreigners
15、 find understanding jokes about sports to be the biggest headache. “The hardest jokes are related to rugby because I know nothing about rugby，” said Melody Cao, who was once a student in Australia. “When I heard jokes I didnt get, I just laughed along.”In the other two major Englishspeaking countrie
16、s, the sense of humor is also different. British comedian Simon Pegg believes that while British people use irony(反话)basically, saying something they dont mean to make a jokeevery day, people in the US dont see the point of using it so often. “British jokes tend to be more subtle and dark, while American jokes are more obvious with the
