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3. 你想与Mrs. Brown 另约时间在本周六。
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Dear Mrs Brown,
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Air travel has three advantage over train travel. First, it can save much time. We can fly from one place to other in a short time, but by train we have to spend more time. Second, air travel is more comfortable because the plane flies so smooth that we can have good rest during the trip. Third, the train is crowding sometimes and we have to sit for a long time, what makes us tired. But train travel also has it’s own advantages. For an example, traveling by train cost only a little money. Beside, we can enjoy the view out of the train’s windows.
What is it that makes people laugh? More than two thousand years ago the ancient Greek philosopher (哲学家) Aristotle defined (定义) jokes as the pleasure that results from a feeling of triumph 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 （残酷）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.The underlined word “inferiority” (in Paragraph 1) means ______.
A．someone that is better than someone else
B．something that is better than something else
C．someone that is as good as someone else
D．something that is not as good as something else
2.According to Aristotle, all jokes depend mainly on ______.
A．resulting in a sense of success
B．showing inferiority in another person or group
C．having a good opinion of other people
D．making people laugh unexpectedly
3.What’s the main idea of Paragraph 2?
A．To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.
B．When people are angry, they would like to hear jokes.
C．People who like jokes are usually cruel.
D．Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.
4.What will a good joke-teller always try to do?
A．Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation
B．Make different things happen at the same time.
C．Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.
D．Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.
Your friends might be in Australia or maybe just down the road, but they are all just a few clicks away. Life has changed for millions of young people across the world who now make friends online. Whether you use chat-rooms, QQ, MSN or ICQ, you are a member of this group.
“I don’t often talk with my parents or grandparents, but I talk a lot with my old friends on QQ,” said Fox’s Shadow, the online name used by a girl student in China. “Most of my classmates use QQ after school.”
QQ is the biggest messaging service in China. A record from Tencent, the company which developed QQ, shows that 4 million people used it one Saturday night in October.
And probably Fox’s Shadow was one of them. “I log in on Friday nights, and Saturdays or Sundays when I feel everything around me boring. I usually spend about ten hours chatting online every week,” she said. “But I never talk with strangers, especially boys or men.”
Even though she likes chatting, she is careful about making friends with strangers online. “You don’t know who you’re talking to. You should always be careful about whom you believe in online.”
Many people would like to meet offline when they feel they have known someone very well. Fox’s Shadow once met one of her online friends face to face. It was a girl who was a football fan like herself and they went to a football match together.
A 16-year-old Beijing boy, named Bart Simon online, dislikes QQ users. “I used to chat on QQ, but I found that most people were talking about foolish things,” he said. Now he chats online in English, using MSN. “I only chat online because I’ve got friends in Japan, the US and Singapore,” he said. “I want to learn more about foreign cultures.” But he spends little time chatting on QQ as he sees it as a waste of time and money.
“If you are really addicted to it, sometimes you can’t give your mind to your lessons,” he said. “And friends in your real life are always more important than those so-called friends you meet online.”
1.From the passage, we know“…they are all just a few clicks away” means“ ”.
A．it is wonderful to see your friends by clicking
B．it is popular to make friends online
C．it is possible to live much closer to your friends
D．it is easy and fast to get in touch with your friends
2.Fox’s Shadow thinks QQ is .
A．a good place to spend her time when bored
B．the biggest messaging service in China
C．a safe place to chat with strangers
D．the best place to make friends
3.Which of the following sentences is TRUE according to the passage?
A．All the people on QQ are talking about foolish things.
B．We should think more of our friends in real life.
C．We should be careful about boys or men online.
D．Chatting online is a waste of time and money.
4.The underlined phrase means .
A．turn on the computer B．enter in QQ
C．surf the internet D．make friends
It is believed that if an event is _______, it will surely ______ the readers of the paper.
A．astonished; astonish B．astonishing; be astonished
C．astonishing; astonish D．astonished; be astonished
If we are not _______ the progress we have made, we will have greater success.
A．interested in B．strict in C．popular with D．content with
