Reading(1)：Stand up for your health!课堂实录【3】

Unit 1

Reading

一.Fill in the blanks using the verbs given. 1. If you hear a comedian _____ jokes about the way people behave when they queue up in lines, or _____ why it only rains when you forget your umbrella, you are listening to an observational comedian. (tell; ask) 2. Prop comedians use things, called props, _______ jokes. (tell) 3. When he started practising stand-up as a child, he told himself jokes while _______ in front of the mirror, ______ his teeth. (stand; brush) 4.He is very good at thinking quickly and ______ new jokes about the people and things around them. (make) 5. They could only see him ______

there ______ his lips. (stand; move) 6. Crystal’s popularity with all age group and his ability ________ people all over the world prove that stand-up can be enjoyed by everyone. (amuse) 7. Doctors ______________________ what effect stand-up and other forms of comedy have on us. (research) 二．Fill in the blanks, using the correct form.

1. I _______________ tennis every day for a month. I don’t

understand why I’m not losing weight. (play) 2. Like other stand-up comedians who ___________to act in films, Crystal still enjoys stand-up. (go on) 3. Instead of telling the jokes he ___________, Crystal made up a new one. (plan) 三．Fill in the blanks, using proper preposition or adverb. 1. Only a few stand-up comedians have become famous as television and film actors later ____ in life. 2. The audience howled ______ laughter. 3. Doctors have been researching what effect stand-up and other forms of comedy have _____ us. 4. He hopes to follow ___ the footsteps of other famous comedians, such as Bob Hope and George Burns, who lived to be 100 years and kept working _____the end of their lives.