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1、Stand-up for your health!Types of stand-upA Famous ComedianLaughter is good for your health!Four typesBilly CrystalintroductionWhat is the article about?stand-up comedy. After starting as a stand-up comedian, what did Billy Crystal go on to do later in life?He went on to act in films.What is laughte

2、r good for?Our health. Guessing the meaning of new words When reading a text that contains many new words, try not to look up each of them. Instead, try to guess the meaning of these words from the context. Often, the writer will give the meaning of difficult or technical vocabulary in the sentences

3、 around it. For example (line 2) The way a word is used may also give you some ideas of the meaning. For example (line 28)Exercise C1 (T or F)1, Visual humor can be boring when you cannot see what the comedian is doing. (lines 11-13)T2, One comedian did not lose any weight even though he had been do

4、ing a lot of physical exercise for a month. (lines 14-15)F3, People usually laugh at comedians doing impressions because they do not like the person being made fun of. (lines 21-22)F4, The old actors speech at the Academy Awards was like a silent film because there was no sound. (lines 37-42)T5, Bob

5、 Hope and George Burns lived for a long time probably because they laughed a lot. (line 53)TExercise C2 1, Where is stand-up comedy usually done? On a stage (line 3) 2, How might a stand-up comedian decide what jokes to tell?Depending upon how the audience reacted to his or her previous jokes (line5

6、)3, How many types of stand-up are mentioned?Four types4, When did Billy Crystal begin practicing stand-up?When he was a child5,What is one reason Billy Crystal has become so famous?He is very quick thinking, and is often to come up with new jokes about the people and things around him.6, Who were B

7、ob Hope and George Burns?Two famous comedians.7, What does your brain do when you laugh?It sends chemicals around your body that are good for you.8, What is the English saying about laughter mentioned in the text?Laughter is the best medicine.Exercise D 1,tease g 2 behave d 3 visual f 4 academy b 5,

8、 technical a 6, howl c 7, amuse e 1, People have always enjoyed laughing, and there has always been humour. 人们从来爱笑, 幽默一直存在。 enjoy+n/doing 喜爱(做)某事 there has always been there be 句型的现在完成形式句型的现在完成形式 2, Stand-up is a kind of comedy that is done on a stage by a comedian talking straight to audience membe

9、r. 单口喜剧是一种舞台剧，由一个演员表演，演员与观众直接交流。 that 引导定语从句，修饰先行词 comedy talking straight to audience member 做comedian的后置定语。 3, A stand-up comedian may tease an audience member, or might decide to tell different jokes depending upon how the audience reacted to his or her previous jokes. depend on/upon 依靠；信赖；决定于依靠；

10、信赖；决定于 (line 5) How much it costs depends upon how much you buy. react to作出反应作出反应; 回应回应 (line 5) 4, There are a variety of different styles of stand-up comedy 单口喜剧有很多不同的类型 a variety of 不同种类的，各种各样的 eg: The island has a wide variety of wildlife 这个岛屿有多种多样的野生动植物。 various a.不同的，各种各样的；多方面的 5, For example,

11、 they may talk about how people act when they queue up, or they may ask why it only rains when you forget your umbrella. queue up 排队排队 = line up(美国人常用美国人常用) (line 10) 6, Other comedians rely on visual humour. rely on 依靠，依赖；信赖，指望 (line 11) If you can rely on someone to work well or to behave as you w

12、ant them to, you can trust them to do this.信赖 7, Their humour may be inspired by objects. be inspired by 被被所激发所激发 (line 12) 8, Another comedian pointed to a video tennis game and says, Ive been playing tennis every day for a month. I dont understand why I am not losing weight! point to 指向指向 (line 14

13、) （1）句中Ive been playing tennis every day for a month. 使用了现在完成进行时，表示动作从过去开始一直持续到现在，且可能继续下去 （2）句中understand后接一个由why引导的 宾语从句 9, The last kind of comedian does impressionshe or she will act or speak like a well-known person in order to make fun of that person. impression n 印象，感觉；印记，压痕 (line 19) impress

14、vt.给以深刻的印象，使铭记；印，压印 well- known adj .众所周知的，著名的 (line 20) little- known adj, 鲜为人知的 (line 30) 10, while this kind of humour may sound cruel, it usually only works if both the comedian and the audience have affection for or admire the person being made fun of. 这种幽默听起来可能有点刻薄，但通常只有当喜剧演员和观众都喜欢或者崇拜这个被取笑的对象

15、时，这种幽默才奏效 sound cruel 听起来有些残酷/刻薄 (line 21) work 在这里的意思为“起作用/奏效” have affection for 喜爱，钟爱 tell jokes about (line 3) make jokes about (line 13) make fun of (line 22) come up with new jokes about (line 35) play jokes on 开的玩笑 play tricks on捉弄,开玩笑 句中while引导一个让步状语从句，have affection for 和admire的宾语是person,分词

16、短语being made fun of 作the person 的定语 11, Only a few stand-up comedians have become famous as television and film performance later on in life. One such person is Billy crystal. 只有为数不多的单口喜剧演员在随后的生涯中成为走红的影视明星。一个成功的例子就是比利克里斯托。 a few 一些 后接可数名词 Few 几乎没有 后接可数名词 a little 一些 后接不可数名词 little 几乎没有 后接不可数名词 （1）短语

17、later on 的意思是“后来，过些时候”。 Later on, he got a job as a consultant. 后来他找了一份咨询师的工作 （2）句中such 为形容词，意思是“那样的，这样的，如此的”。当它与数词或者不定代词any, some, all ,no等连用时，常置于它们之后，但与不定冠词连用时，则置于不定冠词之前。 There is no such thing as a free lunch. 天下没有免费的午餐 You gave me such a fright! 你吓了我一跳！ 12, like other stand-up comedians who have

18、 gone on to act in films, Crystal still enjoys stand-up. 和其他转向电影表演的单口喜剧演员样，克里斯托现在依然热爱单口喜剧。 If you go on to do something, you do it after you have done something else. go on to do sth.接着做某事 go on doing sth.继续做某事 go on 发生，进行 13, Each time, he performs his stand-up routine in front of millions of peopl

19、e when the show is broadcast live on TV. 每次主持奥斯卡颁奖典礼的时候，他都会通过电视直播在数百万观众面前表演他的单口喜剧 in front of 在在前面前面 (line 29) in the front of 在什么的前部在什么的前部 14, he says it is because when he started practicing stand-up as a child, he told himself jokes while standing in front of the mirror, brushing his teeth. 他说，这是

20、因为从小时候开始练习单口喜剧的时候，他就习惯于站在镜子面前，边刷牙边对自己说笑话! While standing in front of the mirror, brushing his teeth 后面的分词是现在分词做时间状语。 15, One reason Crystal has become so famous is that he is very quick thinking, and is often able to come up with new jokes about the people and things around him. 克里斯托之所以如此出名， 原因之一就是他

21、思维异常敏捷，常常能就身边的人或事即兴编出笑话来。 16, They could only see him standing there moving his lips. 大家只能看见他站在那里，两片嘴唇动个不停。 see sb +do/doing 看见某人做/正在做 句中moving his lips是v-ing做伴随状语。 17, instead of telling the joke he had planned, Crystal made up a new one. 克里斯托干脆放弃了事先准备好的笑话，即兴编了一个笑话。 make up 编造，虚构；组成；化妆 be made up o

22、f 由组成 consist of sth 由组成 instead of 代替 18, you can expect to hear a lot more from Billy Crystalhe has no plans to stop making films, or to stop telling jokes. He hopes to follow in the footsteps of other famous comedians, such as Bob Hope and George Burns, who lived to be 100 years old and kept working until nearly the end of their lives. 你可以期待听到比利克里斯托表演更多的单口喜剧他尚无停止电影表演的打算，也没有停止讲笑话的想法。他希望效仿鲍勃霍普和乔治伯恩斯等单口喜剧明星，这两位著名演员都活到了一百岁，而且生命不息、工作不止。 19, Doctors have been researching what effect stand-up and other forms of