首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your
admin
2010-06-30
72
问题
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. 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. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. 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.
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. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. 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. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that’s God", came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor".
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. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. 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.
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote" If at first you don’t succeed, give up "or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.
To make your humor work, you should______.
选项
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
答案
C
解析
本题为细节题。题干“要使幽默达到效果你应该做什么?”与文章首段的第一句话的意思相吻合,可以确定本题出自此处。第二句话进一步解释如何达到幽默效果,“要谈论与听众相关的话题(be relevant to audience)”,选项C“对不同的人谈论不同问题”概括了这一意思。因此,选项C是本题答案。选项A原文中没有提到;选项B借disorganized一词,歪曲原文的意思;选项D将第二句的后半部分的point of view换成listeners,是偷换概念。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8aPd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
TheVillageGreeninNewMilford,Connecticut,isasnapshotofNewEnglandcharm:acarefullymanicuredlawnflankedbyscrupul
Atthedawnofthe20thcentury,suburbiawasadreaminspiredbyrevulsiontothepovertyandcrowdingofthecities.Inthevi
Atthedawnofthe20thcentury,suburbiawasadreaminspiredbyrevulsiontothepovertyandcrowdingofthecities.Inthevi
Therewasatimeinthelate17thcenturywhennorespectablemonarchwouldbeseenwithoutaguitar.BothLouisXIVandCharle
Therewasatimeinthelate17thcenturywhennorespectablemonarchwouldbeseenwithoutaguitar.BothLouisXIVandCharle
PaoloFril,chairmanandscientificofficerofGeneDupe,basedinSanMelito,California,isamanwithadream.Thedreamisa
OnehundredandthirteenmillionAmericanshaveatleastonebank-issuedcreditcard.Theygivetheirownersautomatic(31)____
OnehundredandthirteenmillionAmericanshaveatleastonebank-issuedcreditcard.Theygivetheirownersautomatic(31)____
OnehundredandthirteenmillionAmericanshaveatleastonebank-issuedcreditcard.Theygivetheirownersautomatic(31)____
Atthedawnofthe20thcentury,suburbiawasadreaminspiredbyrevulsiontothepovertyandcrowdingofthecities.Inthevi
随机试题
关于十二经筋的沦述,下列哪项是错误的:
2岁女孩,体检发现胸骨左缘第2、3肋间Ⅱ~Ⅲ级收缩期杂音,肺动脉瓣区第二心音亢进,伴固定性分裂。该患儿的诊断是
A、白细胞B、红细胞管型C、乳糜尿D、血红蛋白尿E、胆红素尿血管内溶血时,尿中可见()。
按照家庭生产理论的观点,正确的说法是()。
少年期的自我中心可以用()等概念来表征。
某元素只存在两种天然同位素,且在自然界它们的含量相近,其相对原子质量为152.0,原子核外的电子数为63。下列叙述中错误的是()。
一甲子是多少年()。
【2014年山东淄博.单选】小学生对长方形的认识有助于其对长方体的理解,这种学习迁移属于()。
一电路并联装有三个同种电气元件,其工作状态相互独立,且无故障工作时间服从参数为λ>0的指数分布.若在(0,1]的时间区间内,线路能够以90%的概率正常工作,则λ=().
(1998年试题,八)设y=f(x)是区间[0,1]上的任一非负连续函数.(1)试证存在xo∈(0,1),使得在区间[0,x]上以f(xo)为高的矩形面积,等于在区间[xo,1]上以y=f(x)为曲边的曲边梯形面积.(2)又设f(x)在区间(0,1)内可导
最新回复
(
0
)