2019年高考英语一轮复习专题03AtasteofEnglishhumour（押题专练）新人教版必修4练习
第一节 阅读理解
A
When Danny Wallace, 26, got bored, he put an ad on the World Wide Web reading simply，“Join Me. Send a passport photo.” A year and a half later his east London flat is the headquarters for a global internetbased “club” whose members carry out good deeds for strangers every Friday.
London to talk to strangers. If you see someone struggling with something, part of the brain goes “I want to help”. But the trained part of the brain says, “They will think you are mad or going to mug them”， so you walk away.
Join Me now has about 3,000 members around the world who do an act of kindness every Friday. For example, I'm usually out on Friday so I go for one of the standard acts—the unexpected cup of coffee. You might be sitting in a cafe and see an old man in the corner drinking coffee or tea, and you walk up with another cup of whatever they are drinking, and say, “I've bought you a coffee” and walk away. It's a pleasure to see the look of surprise on their faces. There can be some suspicion, but I think that was mostly in the early days when I didn't know how to do it properly. I would walk up quite nervously like I was doing something wrong and I didn't know when to leave. In the end, I learned through __trial_and_error__. Sometimes it worked, and other times it didn't. I discovered that you have to walk up with confidence and humour and not “get in their faces”. You say, “This is for you”， then you go. It's hitandrun kindness. And there is no point in doing it halfheartedly. You've got to do it because you really mean it.
Join Me is without geographical boundaries, but there are quite a few members in London
语篇导读
本文为记叙文，简述了公益组织“Join Me”的成立和发展，介绍了作者作为成员之一，每周五做一件善事的经历，最后说明了这一组织存在的意义。
1．When Londoners see someone in trouble, they ____________.
A．often give a hand B．stop and ask questions
C．pretend not to have seen it D．telephone the police
解析 C 细节理解题。根据第二段内容可知，伦敦人一般不和陌生人说话，遇到有困难的陌生人会装作没看见一样走开，故选C项。
2．According to the passage, members of Join Me often ____________.
A．put an advertisement on the World Wide Web
B．go out and make friends with strangers
C．do an act of kindness every Friday
D．buy coffees for the strangers
解析 C 细节理解题。根据第三段第一句可知，Join Me的成员每周五做一件善事，故选C项。
3．The underlined expression in the third paragraph possibly means ____________.
A．finding something very difficult B．doing something without much effort
C．making a few mistakes D．experimenting to get the right result
4．Which would be the best title for the passage?
A．Hitandrun Kindness B．History of Join Me
C．Danny Wallace and Join Me D．Why not Join Me
解析 A 标题归纳题。本文主要围绕Join Me的成员每周五以做完就跑的方式行善事这一主题来展开，故选A项。
B
A good joke can be the hardest thing to understand when studying a foreign language. As a recent article in The Guardian newspaper noted, “There's more to understanding a joke in a foreign language than understanding vocabulary and grammar.”
Being able to understand local jokes is often seen as an unbelievable icebreaker for a language learner eager to form friendships with native speakers. “I always felt that humor was a ceiling that I could never break through，” Hannah Ashley, a public relations account manager in London, who once studied Spanish in Madrid, told The Guardian, “I could never speak to people on the same level as I would speak to a native English speaker. I almost came across as quite a boring person because all I could talk about was facts.”
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