問題詳情

C. Nancy Bell of the University of Washington has done a unique study on badjokes. She instructed fellow researchers to tell a bad joke in the (46 ) of a normalconversation such as: “What did the big chimney say to the little chimney? Nothing,chimneys can’t talk.” She also asked them to (47) the responses. For telling a jokelike the one above, the reaction 44% of the time was insults, dirty looks, or even apunch in the arm. Bell believes that people often react rudely because stupid jokesinsult their (48 ) . “Being selected as an appropriate audience for a stupid jokesuggests that there is something amiss with the hearer’s sense of humor,” Bell remarks.To put it (49) way, you believe the person hearing the joke is stupid enough tolaugh at it. Bell also found that (50 ) who are closest to the teller often react themost harshly to his or her bad joke 
(A) record
(B) intelligence
(C) those
(D) midst
(E) another
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參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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