Unit 3 A taste of English humour卓别林(Charlie Chaplin,1889 年 4 月 16 日～1977 年 12 月 25 日)著名喜剧电影演员、导演、制片人。20 世纪最卓越的喜剧电影大师、伟大的批判现实主义艺术家、反法西斯的和平、民主战士。卓别林比任何人都更好地表现了我们时代的甘苦，半个世纪以来，他以他的丰富的想象力融合了所有人的欢笑和泪水，使人们对他的天赋赞叹不已。————————————————————————————My favourite English teacher could draw humour out of the driest material.We weren't forced to learn.He took Samuel Johnson's dictionary，Joseph Addison's essays，and many other literary wonders from the eighteenth century and made them hilarious，even at eight o'clock in the morning.The thing that amazed me most was that the first time I read these works on my own，some of which seemed dead ， but the second time ， after his explanation ， I couldn't believe that I hadn't seen the humour.The stories and poems and plays were suddenly filled with allusions(典故) and irony and hilarious moments.I learned more from him than from any other teacher.My least favourite English teacher also made people laugh.Some students found him wonderfully funny.Many others did not.He assigned journals over a sixweek period，to be written every day.At the end of the six weeks I had a notebook full of bits and pieces about my ideas，short stories，reactions to what we had read，and so on.Our teacher announced that we would be grading each other's journals.Mine was passed to Joe，that class clown，who always behaved in a funny or silly way.He saw it fit to make a joke of and said ， “ This writing isn't fit to line the bottom of a birdcage.”Our teacher laughed at that funny remark.It hurt me so much that the anger from it has driven my writing and teaching ev...
