2020译林版高考英语一轮复习：第一部分语言知识选修6能力提升题组训练(付,46).pdf

高考 -英语 选修 6 Unit 1 Laughter is good for you 能力提升题组训练 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 (2018 江西赣中高三联考 ) Before I studied psychology,I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred.While I was right about that,I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that makepeople laugh other than the funny part of a joke.When someone laughs at a joke,there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh — and the more reasons there are,the more powerful the joke will be. I was attending a stand-up comedy show in Egypt,and when the manstarted to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets,everyone laughed their heads off.The main reason why those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly.The joke wasn’t only funny,but it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians.That is,people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got. The better a joke makes a person feel,and the more it includes other psychological factors,the more the person will like it.For example,if you envy one of your friends,and someone tells a joke that is funny and,at the same time,makes your friend seem stupid,then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren ’t jealous of him. In short,we don ’t laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke.I s