2013年中考语精品复习资料 阅读理解记叙文篇(九).docVIP

2013年中考英语精品复习资料 阅读理解篇（九）（41） Scientists have discovered the world’s funniest joke! Dr. Wiseman，from Oxford University in Britain，created a website with jokes on it．He then asked people to rate(定级) the jokes from 1(“not very funny”) to 5(“very funny”)． People could also tell their own jokes．At the end of one year，Wiseman had two million ratings and 40 000 jokes from around the world． Why study jokes? Dr. Wiseman thinks humor can tell us a lot about people．In Wiseman’s experiment(实验)，people from different countries did think different jokes were funny．For example，Europeans rated jokes about