D．someone that is better than someone else

　　A　[词义猜测题。从第一段的"... that is，putting it clearly，on showing that they are worse off than ourselves."可知A项正确。]

　　2．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

　　A　[细节理解题。从第一段的第三句话可知A项正确。]

　　3．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.

　　D　[段落大意题。从第二段的"The joke lets us express those attitudes which are usually unacceptable to society."可知D项正确。]

　　4．What will a good joke­teller 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.

　　C　[细节理解题。从最后一段的最后一句话可知C项正确。]

　　B

Hip­hop culture covers many fields; it includes spoken words, break­dancing, beat­making, painting, fashion, lively design, technology, and more. Hip­hop is becoming the unofficial music in the education world, as more artists launch school programs, summer camps, and other activities connected city youth in the classroom