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 di?erent. 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如果你想在交談中使用幽默來(lái)引人發(fā)笑，就必須懂得如何找到（那些你和聽(tīng)眾所）共有的經(jīng)歷和問(wèn)題。②你的幽默必須與聽(tīng)眾相關(guān)，而且有助于表明你是他們中的一員，或者表明你了解他們的處境并贊同他們的觀點(diǎn)。③（因此）根據(jù)談話對(duì)象不同，所談的內(nèi)容也不同。④假如你和一群經(jīng)理交談，就可以提及他們的秘書做事缺乏條理；反之，假如你在和一群秘書們交談，就可以對(duì)他們做事毫無(wú)章法的老板做一番評(píng)論。

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）一個(gè)故事為例——（這個(gè)故事）是我在一次護(hù)士會(huì)議上聽(tīng)到的——它的幽默效果很好，因?yàn)樗械穆?tīng)眾對(duì)醫(yī)生都持有相同的看法。②（故事是這樣的，）一個(gè)人到了天堂，圣?彼得帶著他四處參觀。③他看到漂亮的房子、美麗的花園、晴朗的天氣等。④每個(gè)人都非常和氣、禮貌和友善，然而（就在這位新來(lái)者）排隊(duì)等候午餐時(shí)，突然被一個(gè)穿著白大褂的人推到一旁。只見(jiàn)那個(gè)人沖到隊(duì)伍最前面，抓起食物，然后噔噔地(表示步子沉重)走到一張餐桌旁獨(dú)自吃了起來(lái)。⑥“他是誰(shuí)？”新來(lái)的人問(wèn)彼得。⑥“哦，他是上帝”彼得回答到“但有時(shí)他認(rèn)為自己是一名醫(yī)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 O?ce or the telephone? system.

①如果你與聽(tīng)眾來(lái)自同一個(gè)群體，你們就會(huì)很清楚，你們共有的經(jīng)歷和問(wèn)題，你也就可以順便對(duì)食堂難吃的飯菜或老總在挑選領(lǐng)帶方面眾人皆知的低劣品味評(píng)頭品足。②如果是其他聽(tīng)眾，你千萬(wàn)不要試圖插入這類幽默，因?yàn)樗麄儠?huì)反感一個(gè)局外人對(duì)他們的食堂或領(lǐng)導(dǎo)發(fā)表蔑視性的評(píng)論。③如果你以郵局或電話系統(tǒng)這類替罪羊作為笑料，往往會(huì)比較妥當(dāng)。

① If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural.② Include a few casual and apparently o?-the-cu? 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如果你在表現(xiàn)幽默時(shí)感覺(jué)不自然，就必須加以練習(xí)，使之變得更自然。②你可以輕松、自然地在談話中加進(jìn)一些隨意的、看似即興的評(píng)論。③常常是你說(shuō)話的方式讓聽(tīng)眾發(fā)笑，所以要放慢語(yǔ)速，而且要記住：眉角上揚(yáng)或依附難以置信的表情都會(huì)有助于向聽(tīng)眾表明你在說(shuō)笑話。

① Look for the humor. ② It often comes from the unexpected. ③ A twist on a familiar quote “If at ?rst 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）發(fā)現(xiàn)幽默。②它經(jīng)常來(lái)自意料之外。③可以故意歪曲一下大家熟知的話，比如說(shuō)“如果一開(kāi)始不成功，那就放棄好了”，或者玩文字游戲，或就一個(gè)情景（開(kāi)玩笑）。④試著夸大其詞或輕描淡寫。⑤想一想你的談話內(nèi)容，挑出一些可以改動(dòng)的詞或句子來(lái)，并將幽默注入其中。

41.To make your humor work, you should_______.

[A] take advantage of di?erent kinds of audience

[B] make fun of the disorganized people

[C] address di?erent problems to di?erent 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 bene?ted 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 E?ectively? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?[B] Various Kinds of Humor

[C] Add Humor to Speech? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?[D] Di?erent Humor Strategies