如2002第一篇：“If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with (支持)their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group or managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses。”
41. To make your humor work, you should
[A] take advantage of different kinds of audience。
[B] make fun of the disorganized people。
[C] address different problems to different people。
[D] show sympathy for (同情)your listeners。
很多考生沒有能正確識別兩個sympathy的意思，而誤選了選項D。
B)貌似同義改寫：當選項中出現一個單詞和原文中一個單詞非常相似，或者就是一個詞，只要詞性發生變化，一般都是錯誤答案。
如2004年第二篇：“Can this merely be coincidence? One theory, dreamt up in all the spare time enjoyed by the alphabetically disadvantaged, is that the rot sets in early. At the start of the first year in infant school, teachers seat pupils alphabetically from the front, to make it easier to remember their names. So short-sighted Zysman junior gets stuck in the back row, and is rarely asked the improving questions posed by those insensitive teachers. At the time the alphabetically disadvantaged may think they have had a lucky escape (幸運的逃脫了). Yet the result may be worse qualifications, because they get less individual attention, as well as less confidence in speaking publicly。”
48、The 4th paragraph suggests that
[A] questions are often put to the more intelligent students。
[B] alphabetically disadvantaged students often escape from class. (逃學)
