A classic joke goes like this: A nurse rushes into an exam room and says, “Doctor, doctor, there is an invisible man in the waiting room.” The doctor says, “Tell him I can’t see him.” Pretty simple, right?
Here is how I tell it: “A nurse—her name is Joyce—feels a presence in the waiting room. She looks around but sees nothing. She jumps up from her desk, carefully replaces her chair, and runs down the hallway to the doctor’s office. She knocks on the door. No response. He’s not there. Where can he be? She continues down the hall, admiring a picture of an 18th-century Mississippi boat along the way.” By the time, my audience has left, but I go on. “She bursts into the exam room and says, ‘Doctor, doctor!’ The doctor, I should mention...”
You get the idea. I can’t leave a simple joke alone.
I’m not the only joke-challenged member of the family. My sister’s worse than I am. Her problem: She can’t remember them. “‘A nurse rushes into an exam room and says...’ Uh, let me start all over again. ‘A nurse rushes into a waiting...’ No, it’s not the waiting room. She just came from the waiting room. Let me start all over again. ‘A doctor rushes into...’ No, wait…”
My uncle’s different. “Okay,this is a good one. Ready? No, really, ready? Okay, ‘A nurse...’ Got it? A nurse? Okay, ready? ‘A nurse rushes into an exam room and says: Doctor, there’s an invisible man in the waiting room.’ Now, this is where it gets funny. Ready?’ No one is ever ready, so they leave before he gets to the funny part.
No one in my family has ever finished this joke.
Next time you see my family and someone is telling a joke, do yourself a favour: Make yourself invisible.
19. What’s the passage mainly about?
A. How to tell a classic joke.
B. The author has a happy family.
C. Telling a classic joke is not easy.
D. The author’s family are not good at telling a joke.
20. When the author tells a joke,he tends to .
A. add too many extra details B. forget it
C. act like the host of a show program D. leave it alone
21. The last sentence implies that when the author’s family tell a joke.
A. you should stop them B. you can’t see anything
C. you will become invisible D. you would not like to listen
DAD
A. Profits enlarging B. Technology developing C. Education investing D. Benefits transferring E. Dominance disappearing F. A nation rising |
The following is an imaginary diary entry written by US president. This diary is part of Global Trends 2025, which was written by the US National Intelligence Council
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Global wealth and economic power will shift from West to East.
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The transition from old fuels to new will be slow, as will the development of new technologies that present feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or help eliminate food and water problems. All current technologies are inadequate, and new ones will probably not be commercially possible by 2025