Unit 3 a taste of English humor导读：英国人的幽默用看似轻描淡写的几句话，让全场会心一笑，事后还能不断回味。笑，并非许多中国人所想的那样，只是人生一瞬，只是逗个乐子，而是隽永的，多角度的，能够弥漫整个社会的一种精神，一种生活，一种享受。你了解英国人的幽默吗？Fun seems to be the possession of the English race. Fun is John Bull's idea of humor, and there is no intellectual judgment in fun. Everybody understands it because it is practical. More than that, it unites all classes and sweetens even political life. To study the elemental form of English humor, you must look to the school － book. It begins with the practical joke, and unless there is something of his nature about it, it is never humor to an Englishman. In an English household, fun is going all the time. The entire house resounds withit. The father comes home and the whole family contribute to the amusement; puns, humorous uses of words, little things that are meaningless nonsense, if you like, fly round, and everyone enjoys them thoroughly for just what they are. The Scotch are devoid of this trait, and the Americans seem to be, too. —Excerpt from Scottish Humor by John Watson 1. Whatever difficulty we have, we should try to __________ (克服) it. 2. I have found his classes both informative and __________(趣味性). 3. The dictionary is __________(particular)useful for beginners. 4. There is now __________( 令 人 信 服 的 )evidence that smoking causes lung cancer. 5. He was __________(大吃一惊) to hear that he hadgot the job. 6. Soon news spread t__________ the country. 7. Success came after many f__________. 8. I've been f__________ to have so many good teachers. 9. He was given a reward for his o__________ work. 10. Tom is jobless, penniless and h_____...
