北师大版高中英语选择性必修第二册UNIT4导读话题妙切入课件+学案

1．The sense of humour is a sense.

—Li，JiBolun

幽默感就是分寸感。

——黎·纪泊伦

2．The humour and wit is the flash of wisdom.

—Shakespeare

幽默风趣是智慧的闪现。

——莎士比亚

3．The humour comes from wisdom，verbal abuse from incompetence.

—Pine forest

幽默来自智慧，恶语来自无能。

——松林

4．Humour is not willing to institutional absurdity.

—Usher

幽默是不肯正经其事的荒谬感。

——厄谢尔

Humour is very important，it can adjust the atmosphere，making things work easily.Life needs humour，without humour，life would be boring.Foreign people like to make friends with humorous people，they can feel relax when they are chatting，while most Chinese people are always taking things too seriously.

Laugh and the world laughs with you.Even better，you might live longer，a Norwegian researcher reports.Adults who have a sense of humour outlive those who don't find life funny，and the survival edge is particularly large for people with cancer，says Sven Svebak of the medical school at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

He released his study of about 54，000 Norwegians，tracked for seven years，at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting.At the start，patients filled out questionnaires on how easily they found humour in real­life situations and how important a humorous perspective was.

The greater a role humour plays in their lives，the greater their chances of surviving the seven years，Svebak says.Adults who scored in the top one­quarter for humour appreciation were 35% more likely to be alive than those in the bottom quarter，he says.In a group of 2，015 who had a cancer diagnosis at the start，a great sense of humour cut someone's chances of death by about 70% compared with adults with a poor sense of humour，Svebak says.

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1．What is Sven Svebak?

A professor in the medical school at Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

2．How did Sven Svebak carry out his study?

By questionnaire and comparison.