Period Four Writing Ⅰ.单句填空 1.It is common knowledge that swimming is one of the best (form) of exercise. 2.I can tell from the parents’ (face) expression that they are proud of their son. 3.The factory I once worked has changed a lot. 4.How (improve) the quality of products is a difficult problem to him. 5.The students showed great interest after the professor gave a brief (introduce) to the course. Ⅱ.语法填空 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 A 90-year-old has been awarded “Woman of the Year” for 1. (be) Britain’s oldest full-time employee—still working 40 hours a week. Now Irene Astbury works from 9 am to 5 pm daily at the pet shop in Macclesfield, 2. she opened with her late husband Les. Her years of hard work have 3. (final) been acknowledged after a customer nominated(提名) her to be Cheshire’s Woman of the Year. Picking up her “Lifetime Achievement” award,proud Irene 4. (declare) she had no plans 5. (retire) from her 36-year-old business. Irene said,“I don’t see any reason to give up work. I love coming here and seeing my family and all the friends I 6. (make) over the years. I work not because I have to, 7. because I want to.” Granddaughter Gayle Parks,31—who works alongside her in the family business—said it remained unknown as to who nominated Irene for the award. She said,“We don’t have any idea who put Grandma forward. When we got a call 8. (say) she was short-listed,we thought it was 9. joke. But then we got an official letter and we were blown away. We are so proud of her. It’s 10. (wonder).” Ⅲ.阅读理解 Why do we laugh and get amusement from so many different things, from puns(双关语)to pratfalls Why are some things funny to some people but not to others How is that while a successful joke can cause pleasure, a sick one can cause serious harm Over the centuries, various scholars have attempted to produce a universally agreed-upon theory of humour. Plato and Aristotle introduced the superiority(优越感) theory, the idea that people laugh at the misfortune of others. Their theory seems to explain teasing, but it doesn’t work well for knock-knock jokes. Sigmund Freud argued for his relief theory, the concept that humour is a way for people to release psychological tension and reveal their inner fears and desires. His theory works well for dirty jokes, less well for most puns. The majority of humour experts today agree with the incongruity theory, the idea that humour arises when there’s a gap between what people expect to happen and what actually happens. Incongruity has a lot going for it—jokes with unexpected funny lines, for example, fit well. But scientists have found that in comedy, unexpectedness is overvalued. With the goal of developing a new, more satisfactory explanation, I produced “the gentle violation(违背) theory ... ...
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