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① If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. ② 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. ③ Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. ④ 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.

①如果你想在交谈中使用幽默来引人发笑，就必须懂得如何找到（那些你和听众所）共有的经历和问题。②你的幽默必须与听众相关，而且有助于表明你是他们中的一员，或者表明你了解他们的处境并赞同他们的观点。③（因此）根据谈话对象不同，所谈的内容也不同。④假如你和一群经理交谈，就可以提及他们的秘书做事缺乏条理；反之，假如你在和一群秘书们交谈，就可以对他们做事毫无章法的老板做一番评论。

① 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. ② A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. ③ He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. ④ 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. ⑤“Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. ⑥“Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.”

① （下面以）一个故事为例——（这个故事）是我在一次护士会议上听到的——它的幽默效果很好，因为所有的听众对医生都持有相同的看法。②（故事是这样的，）一个人到了天堂，圣・彼得带着他四处参观。③他看到漂亮的房子、美丽的花园、晴朗的天气等。④每个人都非常和气、礼貌和友善，然而（就在这位新来者）排队等候午餐时，突然被一个穿着白大褂的人推到一旁。只见那个人冲到队伍最前面，抓起食物，然后噔噔地(表示步子沉重)走到一张餐桌旁独自吃了起来。⑥“他是谁？”新来的人问彼得。⑥“哦，他是上帝”彼得回答到“但有时他认为自己是一名医生”。

① 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. ② With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they ill resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. ③ You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone  system.

①如果你与听众来自同一个群体，你们就会很清楚，你们共有的经历和问题，你也就可以顺便对食堂难吃的饭菜或老总在挑选领带方面众人皆知的低劣品味评头品足。②如果是其他听众，你千万不要试图插入这类幽默，因为他们会反感一个局外人对他们的食堂或领导发表蔑视性的评论。③如果你以邮局或电话系统这类替罪羊作为笑料，往往会比较妥当。

① If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural.② Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. ③ 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.

①如果你在表现幽默时感觉不自然，就必须加以练习，使之变得更自然。②你可以轻松、自然地在谈话中加进一些随意的、看似即兴的评论。③常常是你说话的方式让听众发笑，所以要放慢语速，而且要记住：眉角上扬或依附难以置信的表情都会有助于向听众表明你在说笑话。

① Look for the humor. ② It often comes from the unexpected. ③ A twist on a familiar quote “If at first you don’t succeed, give up” or a play on words or on a situation. ④ Search for exaggeration and understatement. ⑤ Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

① （要善于）发现幽默。②它经常来自意料之外。③可以故意歪曲一下大家熟知的话，比如说“如果一开始不成功，那就放弃好了”，或者玩文字游戏，或就一个情景（开玩笑）。④试着夸大其词或轻描淡写。⑤想一想你的谈话内容，挑出一些可以改动的词或句子来，并将幽默注入其中。

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