高中英语人教版高一下讲解16

[00:05.69]1 Look at the photos.Do you know who these comedians 1 are?

[00:15.96]What makes them funny?

[00:19.30]2 Do you know other comedians who are funny in the same way?

[00:24.58]3 Have you seen any of these comedians or proprammes?

[00:39.44]READING

[00:44.41]LAUGHING MATTER

[00:47.65]Comedies are theatre plays that make people laugh.

[00:52.82]The writers of comedies often use different techniques

[00:58.15]to make their auiences laugh.

[01:01.91]Cross-dressing 2 men or women often appear on the stage.

[01:07.66]Dustin Hoffman is famous for his role acting 3 as a woman.

[01:13.22]Funny plays often have characters that are stereotypes 4 of nationalities

[01:19.78]or people doing certain jobs.

[01:23.85]The actors make us laugh by making fun of somebody's way of dressing

[01:30.10]or telling an amusing 5 story.

[01:34.46]Acting out stereotypes of people from different countries can be very funny.

[01:44.52]It sounds funny to hear foreigners speak with an accent.

[01:49.66]Word play is a way to create fun in comedies.

[01:54.63]Shakespeare's plays made people in the sixteenth century laugh loudly.

[02:00.97]But to us his plays are not very funny

[02:05.73]because the meaning of words in English is their mother tongue,

[02:15.18]often cannot understand his jokes.

[02:19.44]Clowns also make people laugh.

[02:23.10]They often act alone or as a pair and make a different kind of fun.

[02:29.66]Clowns often don;t use any words at all.

[02:34.10]It is their clothes,make-up and the way they walk that makes people laugh.

[02:41.04]Some people think clowns are only funny for children.

[02:46.30]Actually they can help people forget their problems,at least for a short moment.

[02:53.66]Another type of people whose job is to make people laugh are comedians.

[02:59.83]They often work alone or as a pair.

[03:04.06]Unlike clowns,comedians'clothes are usually not very strange.

[03:10.90]Although body language and their face are important in their shows,

[03:16.65]they do not use the make-up that clowns use.

[03:21.33]Comedians may act out a situation during their shows.

[03:26.97]We call that a sketch,but usually,their hows don't look like comedies.

[03:34.83]What comedians have in common with the players in a comedy

[03:40.00]is their way of playing with words.

[03:44.05]Comedians make people laugh,but also think about life.

[03:49.80]At one moment in a show,you can hear the audience laughing loudly.

[03:56.04]A few minutes later everybody is quiet,

[04:01.32]listening and thinking about the comedians'words.

[04:06.07]Typical for China is the crosstalk show,

[04:10.93]where a pair of comedians entertains the audience with word play.

[04:16.89]A crosstalk show has two speakers making many jokes and funny conversations.

[04:24.44]They may also dress up a little

[04:28.30]or act out small sketches 6 in front of the laughing audience.

[04:33.87]Comedians of all times and many countries

[04:38.62]have a long tradition of this type of comedy.

[04:43.06]Dating back to the Qin Dynasty(221-207 BC),the traditional crosstalk shows,

[04:50.43]or xiangsheng shows,

[04:54.50]have made people all over China roar 7 with laughter for centuries.

[05:00.85]Skilled artists make use of all the richness of the spoken language

[05:07.23]to create a rapid flow of fun.

[05:11.48]Their talk includes rhythm 8 and rhyming words as well as tongue twisters,

[05:18.15]which often make the audience applaud 9.

[05:22.09]To appreciate the jokes of crosstalk artists,

[05:26.84]listeners have to know very well what the comedians are talking about.

[05:32.72]If you are not fluent in Chinese,you will not catch all of it.

[05:38.78]Perhaps that is the reason why few foreigners know about this Chinese art form.

[12:21.43]1 Then he began to talk to us about French.

[12:34.57]2 What surprised me most was to see some women

[12:39.85]kneeling on the ground at the end of the room.

[14:33.90]LANGUAGE STUDY

[14:50.96]1 bitterness

[15:02.61]She kept weeping in bitterness.

[15:11.36]You can hardly feel the bitterness about her failure

[15:17.52]in the experiment after so many blood-sweating days and nights.

[15:41.58]2 intention

[15:50.41]He came with every intention to stay on this new job,

[15:57.07]but now he's decided 10 to leave.

[16:07.84]And the most puzzling thing is that he's been keeping all

[16:18.00]to himself his intention of finding 11 an even better-paid job,

[16:24.48]never telling anyone,including his dear and near,

[16:30.12]what he's been turning over in his mind all these years.

[17:09.77]3 Westerners

[17:18.63]When we talk about Westerners,

[17:22.47]we usually refer to those who live in or come from the west part of the world.

[17:41.43]4 certainty 12

[17:50.79]We're all 100% sure that your horse will lose the race-that's a certainty,

[17:58.15]though I can't say with any certainty whose horse will win.

[18:22.03]Many of those whose horses are in the race can have no certainty of success.

[18:36.58]But some believe that Mr.Black's horse is a certainty,

[19:06.12]8 enriches 13

[19:28.88]Reading enriches the mind exactly in the same way fertilizer 14 enriches soll.

[20:07.93]INTEGRATING SKILLS

[20:12.29]WE'VE ALREADY MET,HAVEN'T WE?

[20:16.42]The story of how I got my new job,

[20:20.99]and came to be on such good terms with my boss is a funny one.

[20:26.63]It happened like this.I was eyeling along a street on my way to the intervies.

[20:36.19]A yellow car passed me and suddenly cut in right in front of me,

[20:43.27]as there was another car coming in the other direction.

[20:48.42]I had to brake hard and I hit another cyelist.

[20:54.58]We both fell,but fortunately neither of us was hurt.

[21:00.54]I was extremely angry!

[21:04.61]I saw that a little further up the road the traffic lights had turned red.

[21:11.98]I cyeled as last as I could

[21:16.42]and saw that the driver in the yellow car was waiting at the red light.

[21:24.00]I was still so angry that I went up to tell him what I thought of him.

[21:31.76]I cycled in front of him,got off my bicycle

[21:38.10]and laid it down on the road in front of his car so that he couldn't drive off.

[21:45.68]Then I told him what a bad driver I thought he was.

[21:51.43]I told him that he had knocked two people off their bicycles

[21:57.98]and had nearly caused a bad accident.

[22:02.66]I told him that he was a danger to other people on the road.

[22:08.72]I went on shouting at him while everyone was looing at him.

[22:14.57]His face became red.

[22:18.20]When the light turned green,I said to him,"Don't be so stupid in the future.

[22:26.53]Drive carefully so that everyone can enjoy a long life."

[22:32.80]Then I picked up my bicycle and rode on.

[22:38.37]Fortunately,I was on time for the interview.

[22:43.72]It was an important job,and I wanted the job very much.

[22:49.97]I walked into the room where three people were waiting to interview me.

[22:56.52]There was a woman who was the boss of the office in which I wanted to work.

[23:03.29]There was a man with whom I would have to work together

[23:08.33]and finally the manager of the company-

[23:12.80]the driver of the yellow car!

[23:17.16]We looked at each other for a moment in great surprise and total silence.

[23:24.53]What should I do now?

[23:28.29]I decided to look on the whole matter as a great joke!

[23:34.06]I laughed and said,"Yes,we've already met,haven't we?

[23:40.72]I remember that the last time we met I did most of the talking,

[23:47.17]so perhaps I should let you do the talking this time."

[23:52.45]For a moment I saw him thinking.

[23:56.53]Then he realised that I was not going to say anything about his bad driving.

[24:03.68]The interiew went very well.

[24:07.52]I told the company about my work experience

[24:12.49]and answered their questions as well as I could.

[24:17.06]Two days later I received a letter offering me the job.

[24:23.22]I was pleased that the manager had decided not to be angry

[24:29.28]with me for having been so rude.

[24:32.84]Now I make jokes about it and say to everyone

[24:38.17]that I dare tell my manager exactly what I think of him