I have heard having a good sense of humour of...

I have heard having a good sense of humour often helps in breaking the ice. Also people remember you because of your humour. But I think I don’t have a very good sense of humour. Could you suggest how to build on this?

——Radha Karnik

This is a great question that is unfortunately difficult to answer. I can only give you my views on this topic, which may or may not be correct. I know that my sense of humour developed over time.

When I was younger I was not funny at all, now I can easily make people laugh. At the same time, sometimes I say things that I think are very funny but others do not. Improving wit and humour, I believe, is an ongoing process.

Now, there are various forms of humour and everyone has their individual style. Overall, I believe being fluent in a language is very important for being witty or funny. The way we play around with words adds the “funny” tag to an otherwise normal sentence.

Also, seeing irony is very important. I think humour is often the link between two unrelated things.

In my experience, laughing frequently and appreciating other people’s jokes and wit are very important. Within these, finding humour in everyday normal situations is the key.

I often notice what is going on around me and say funny things in my head and laugh to myself. That serves almost as practice for when I am in a group. I watch comedy shows and movies and I am sure that has some effect on helping me improve my sense of humour.

And last, having confidence that you are witty is important. There will always be someone wittier or funnier than you, which is fine. Just work on building your own style.

Remember, if you are trying to be funny and witty in order to break the ice at a business function, be careful.

In those situations, humour has to be mild and politically correct.

Yours,

Brad

1.Radha Karnik’s problem is that he doesn’t ________.

A. have friends

B. have a good sense of humour

C. understand others’ humour

D. know the functions of humour

2.By telling his own experience, Brad tried to make Radha Karnik believe that ________.

A. a sense of humour can be developed

B. a sense of humour helps impress others

C. laughter is the best medicine

D. laughter and humour go hand in hand

3.Which of the following would Brad agree with?

A. Everyone knows how to appreciate others’ jokes.

B. Everyone is as funny and witty as others.

C. Everyone needs to laugh to themselves each day.

D. Everyone has their individual style of humour.

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Not having a good sense of direction, I always take a map along whenever I____ in the city.

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Dogs have a very good____ of smell and are often used to search for survivors in an earthquake.

A. sense       B. manner     C. means     D. idea

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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. To have read Gulliver’s Travels is to have had the experience of listening to Jonathan Swift, of learning about man’s cruelty to man. To read Huckleberry Finn is to feel what it is like to drift (漂流) down the Mississippi River on a raft . To have read Byron is to have suffered his rebellions with him and to have enjoyed his nose—thumbing at (对……的蔑视) society. To have read Native Son is to know how it feels to be frustrated in the particular way in which Blacks in Chicago are frustrated. This is effective communication. It enables us to feel how others felt about life, even if they lived thousands of miles away and centuries age. It is not true that “We have only one life to live.” If we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

1.The sentence “People who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read” suggests that ______.

A. reading stimulates（激发）a desire to travel      B. reading broadens a person’s experience

C. people who read much live longer             D. people who read are more relaxed

2.The author implies that good literature ______.

A. must deal with social problems             B. must teach a lesson

C. is varied in subject and in content           D. is always exciting and heart--warming

3. According to the author, reading good literature ______.

A. produces new income                    B. is quite useless

C. satisfies the curious                     D. opens new worlds to us

4.The underlined word effective in this passage means ______.

A. actual         B. striking           C. existing          D. having an effect

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It is universally         that dogs have a good sense of smell.

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Find which Direction Is South

Do you have a good sense of direction？If not，please take with you a compass. But if you forget to take a compass , you can still find your way.

It's never a good idea to imagine that the family member who was entrusted(委托〕with the job of map reading actually knows where the family is. You can tell by the "slightly confused look on their face that nothing on the ground seems to match the map. Never mind. The sun is shining and it’s still morning. If you don't know the exact time，you can still find out where south is，but you'll need to be patient.

①Find a straight stick and put it in the ground in a place where you can mark its shadow.

②Try to position the stick as vertically(垂直)as you can. You can check this by making a simple plumb line（铅锤线）with a piece of string（绳子） and weigh. You haven't got any string? Ok, use a thread from your clothes with a button tied at the end to act as a weight.

③Mark the end of the shadow cast by the stick.

④Wait approximately half an hour and mark the end of the shadow again.

⑤Keep doing this until you have made several marks.

⑥The mark nearest the stick will represent the shortest shadow, which is cast at midday, when the sun is highest in the sky and pointing to the exact south.

⑦Pick a point in the distance along the line between the shortest shadow and the stick.

⑧That point is south of where you are.

⑨Now you can turn the map, like you did before, and find which way you should be traveling.

1.To find the direction, we ought to be patient probably because ________.

A. it is not easy to find a proper stick

B. it is not easy to position the stick

C. it takes hours to make the marks

D. it takes about half an hour to make the marks

2.The passage would probably be most helpful to ________.

A. those who draw maps

B. those who get lost

C. those who make compasses

D. those who do experiments

3.Which of the following pictures best shows the way of finding the direction of south?

4.The author presents this passage by ________.

A. telling an interesting story

B. describing an activity in a lively way

C. testing an idea by reasoning

D. introducing a practical method

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.

B. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town.

C. He will give the very person long list of direction.

D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.

2.Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

A. Because of his poor sense of direction.

B. Because he always forget the way to home.

C. Because he did not have any friend.

D. Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.

3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A. He felt strange.                        B. He felt embarrassed.

C. He felt very sad.                    D. He felt astonished.

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

A. A warm-hearted old lady did such a thing

B. The writer did it for himself.

C. The secretary did so.

D. Someone we don’t know.

2.Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

A. Because he always forget the way to home

B. Because of his poor sense of direction

C. Because he did not have any friend.

D. Because he used to be shy and dared not ask others the way.

3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

A. He felt astonished　　　　　　 B. He felt embarrassed.

C. He felt very sad.　　　　　　　 D. He felt strange

4.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

A. He will direct the right way to the person willingly.

B. He will give the very person long list of direction

C. He will reply to it by the means of being a stranger to the town

D. He is going to show the man an opposite direction.

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later. I am one of those unfortunate people who have 　　　　 sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get 　　　　 on my way there. When I was young I was so 　　　 that I never dared ask strangers the way and so I used to 　　 round in circles and hope that I would happen to get to the place I was heading for. I am 　　 　　　　 too shy to ask people for directions, but I often 　　　 replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will 　　 on telling you the way, even if they do not know it ; others who are 　　 to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long 　　　　 of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to 　　　 between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the 　　　　 direction. If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a 　　 to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong 　　　 but even this can have embarrassing (尴尬的) results. Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would 　　 him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my 　　　　 reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I 　　 that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decided it was too late to turn back and 　　　 him in the crowd behind me 　　　 I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting. Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the 　　 man who had asked for directions to my office and his 　　 when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.A. good　　 B. instant　　 C. poor　　 D. fine

2.A. lost　　 B. disappeared　 C. stuck　　 D. missing

3.A. brave　 B. nervous　 C. afraid　　 D. shy

4.A. come　 B. show　　 C. look　　 D. wander

5.A. still　　 B. no longer　 C. any more　 D. often

6.A. receive　 B. accept　　 C. give　　 D. import

7.A. advise　 B. suggest　 C. insist　　 D. persuade

8.A. glad　　 B. anxious　 C. interested　 D. angry

9.A. line　　 B. list　　 C. page　　 D. paragraph

10.A. say　　 B. know　　 C. divide　　 D. tell

11.A. right　 B. same　　 C. other　　 D. opposite

12.A. friend　 B. policeman　 C. stranger　 D. foreigner

13.A. direction B. advice　 　 C. answer　 　 D. road

14.A. direct　 B. tell　　 C. take　　 D. point

15.A. similar　 B. common　 C. usual　　 D. general

16.A. noticed　 B. realized　 C. believed　 D. considered

17.A. look　 B. find　　 C. discover　 D. search

18.A. when　 B. then　　 C. while　　 D. as

19.A. only　 B. certain　 　 C. very　　 D. just

20.A. astonishment B. excitement　 C. judgment　 D. Embarrassment

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Some people are lucky enough to be born with a good sense of direction and even if they have only visited a place once, they will be able to find it again years later.

I am one of those unfortunate people who have poor sense of direction and I may have visited a place time after time but I still get lost on my way there. When I was young I was so shy that I never dared ask complete strangers the way and so I used to wander round in circles and hope that by some chance I would get to the spot I was heading for.

I am no longer too shy to ask people for direction, but I often receive replies that puzzle me. Often people do not like to admit that they didn’t know their hometown and will insist on telling you the way, even if they do not know it; others, who are anxious to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long list of directions which you can not possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to tell between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the opposite direction to that in which you should be going.

If anyone ever asks me the way to somewhere, I always tell them I am a stranger to the town in order to avoid giving them wrong direction but even this can have embarrassing results.

Once I was on my way to work when I was stopped by a man who asked me if I would direct him the way to the Sunlight Building. I gave my usual reply, but I had not walked on a few steps when I realized that he had asked for directions to my office building. However, at this point, I decide it was too late to turn back and search for him out of the crowd behind me as I was going to meet with someone at the office and I did not want to keep him waiting.

Imagine my embarrassment when my secretary showed in the very man who had asked for directions of my office and his astonishment when he recognized me as the person he had asked.

1.What is the writer going to do when someone asks him for direction?

2. Why did the writer consider himself to be an unlucky dog?

3.How did the visitor feel when he was showed into the very room?

4. Who showed the right way to the interviewee according to the passage?

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