Comprehension理解
Give short answers to these questions in your own words as far as possible. Use one complete sentence for each answer.xiao84.com
1 Why might a Frenchman find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke?
2 Why do people all over the world find Charlie Chaplin's early films amusing?
3 Where did ‘sick humour’ originate?
Vocabulary词汇
Explain the meanings of the following words and phrases as they are used in the passage: brought up. (1. 2); mysteriously bound up with (11, 2-3); make (1. 5); universal appeal (1. 8); stems (1. 10); come into fashion (1. 10);distasteful (1. 11)
Summary writing摘要写作
Relate the story told in the passage in not more than 80 words. Use your own words as far as possible. Do not include anything that is not in the last paragraph.
Composition作文
In not more than 250 words tell a funny story you know well. Make out a full plan and provide a suitable title. Your Composition should be in three or four paragraphs.
Letter writing书信写作
You cannot find your overcoat and think you may have left it at the house of a friend whom you visited recently. Write him a letter of about 100 words in three paragraphs asking him if you did in fact leave your overcoat at his house.
Key structuresandSpecial difficulties关键句型和难点
Exercises 练习
1 depends on (1. 1). Which words normally follow these verbs: operate, differ, smell, encourage, lean, approve, delight, suffer, assure, escape, interested, concentrate, include. (IKS 22) （参见第2册第22课关键句型）
2 A Frenchman … might find it hard to laugh at a Russian joke. (11. 3-4) Note this pattern. Write similar sentences using the following: He found it … ; She considered it… ; He thought it … (ISD 84) （参见第2册第84课难点）
3 to laugh at a Russian joke (1. 4). Write two sentences illustrating the difference between laugh and laugh at. (ISD 82a)（参见第2册第82课难点a）
4 fail to see anything amusing (1. 5). Explain the meaning of amusing here. Write sentences using the following words: amuse, enjoy, entertain. (ISD 69b) （参见第2册第69课难点b）
5 A man had broken his right leg. He was taken to hospital a few weeks before Christmas. (1. 13) Join these two sentences then compare your answer with the sentence in the passage. (ISD 28) （参见第2册第28课难点）
6 he kept on pestering his doctor (1. 14). Write sentences using the following: keep off, keep up with, keep out. (ISD 78)（参见第2册第78课难点）
7 on New Year's Eve, he was able to hobble along to a party (1. 19). Write two sentences using could and was able to. (IKS 43c) （参见第2册第43课关键句型 c）
Multiple choice questions多项选择题
Choose the correct answers to the following questions.
Comprehension理解
1 Whether you find ‘sick humour’ funny or not will depend on ______ .
a．your having been brought up in America
b．the joke being related to a fundamentally comic situation
c．your ability to see the funny side of an unpleasant event
d．your ability to laugh until you cry
2 The man spent Christmas Day feeling miserable because ______ .
a．the doctor had failed to attend to him
b．he was not able to be with his friends
c．being unable to walk, he did not enjoy the celebrations at the hospital
d．he thought he might also miss the New Year's Eve celebrations
3 The point of the joke taken to illustrate ‘sick humour’is that ______ .
a．no sooner was the man out of hospital than he had to go back in again
b．the man should not have said how much he hated hospitals
c．the man would be unable to walk for the rest of his life
d．the man had not got a leg to stand on
Structure 结构
4 ______ , for instance, might find it hard to . . . (11. 3-4)
a．The French
b．A French
c．A man in France
d．If you were French
5 ______ amusing stories are based on comic situations. (1. 7)
a．Most
b．Most of
c．The majority
d．Mostly
6 A man ______ broken was taken to hospital . . . (1. 13)
a．whose right leg had been
b．who had the right leg
c．with one right leg
d．to whom the right leg had been
7 He had no sooner arrived there ______ pestering his doctor . . . (11. 13-14)
a．and then he began
b．than he began
c．he began
d．to begin
8 The man compensated for his unpleasant experiences in hospital ______ a little more than . . . (11. 19-20)
a．drinking
b．to drink
c．by drinking
d．and drunk
Vocabulary词汇
9 Though the doctor ______ . . . (1. 15)
a．worked very well
b．could not have been better
c．was extremely skilled
d．did all he could
10 The doctor him by ______ . . . (1. 17)
a．felt
b．advised
c．pleased
d．comforted
11 - and kept telling everyone ______ he hated hospitals. (1. 21)
a．at great lengths that
b．to their cost
c．to what extent
d．why
12 He was still mumbling something ______ at the end . . . (11. 21-22)
a．in the same way
b．to the same effect
c．of common sense
d．of some sort
