place because it's different from things which are happening around it. The same situation can be either sad or pleasant，depending entirely on how strange and out of place it is. If a girl in a bathing suit falls into a swimming pool，we don't laugh because nothing unusual has happened. But if a man in a smart suit falls in，the situation is at once unusual in a pleasant way and we laugh. A good joke-teller will always try to build up a situation in which one thing is expected until something unexpected suddenly happens，and so we laugh.

8．According to Aristotle，all jokes depend mainly on ________.

A. showing inferiority in another person or group

B. resulting in a sense of success

C. having a good opinion of other people

D. making people laugh unexpectedly

9．The underlined word "inferiority"(in Paragraph 1) means ________.

A. something that is not as good as something else

B. something that is better than something else

C. someone that is not as good as someone else

D. someone that is better than someone else

10．What's the main idea of Paragraph 2?

A. Showing we are better than other people is the only one reason we like jokes.

B. When people are angry，they would like to hear jokes.

C. People who like jokes are usually cruel.

D. To express those attitudes usually unacceptable to society is one of the reasons we like jokes.

11．What will a good joke teller always try to do?

A. Make a sad situation into a pleasant one.

B. Make different things happen at the same time.

C. Make an unexpected thing happen in an expected situation.

D. Make people laugh at something unusual and out of place.

D

A university in southwest China's Chongqing City set up a reading room as part of a campaign（活动）that stops students from taking their mobile phones with them in case the device distracts（使分心）them from concentrating on their studies.

Reportedly， a student named Hu Xiaopeng participating in the campaign studied 530 minutes without using his mobile phone. Unlike Hu, another one picked up his mobile phone in less than 20 minutes. "Having seen many students use their mobile phones in the library, a habit that shortens their study time and negatively impacts their learning, we decided to open this reading room," said Zhang Shuran, the person responsible for the project at the university.

Zhang added that students can keep their phones in appointed bags with numbers on them. The bags are placed on a desk near the door of the reading room."Staff members at the reading room will check the phones when there's a call," said Zhang, adding that they will inform students when their parents or teachers call them, but will not tell students if an unknown person is calling or when there is a text message. Based on the time students hand in their phones when they come to the reading room and the time they get them back when they leave the room, Hu Xiaope ng from College of Animal Science and Technology of the university set a record of the longest