全国通用版2019版高考英语大一轮复习单元检测卷18Unit3AtasteofEnglishhumour新人教版必修.docVIP

Unit 3 A taste of English humour Ⅰ.阅读理解 A When Danny Wallace, 26, got bored, he put an ad on the World Wide Web reading simply，“Join Me. Send a passport photo.” A year and a half later his east London flat is the headquarters for a global internet-based “club” whose members carry out good deeds for strangers every Friday. Its not common for people in London to talk to strangers. If you see someone struggling with something, part of the brain goes “I want to help”. But the trained part of the brain says, “They will think you are mad or going to mug them”， so you walk away. Join Me now has about 3,000 members around the world who do an act of kindness every Friday. For example, Im usually out on Friday so I go for one of the standard acts—the unexpected cup of coffee. You might be sitting in a cafe and see an old man in the corner drinking coffee or tea, and you walk up with another cup of whatever they are drinking, and say, “Ive bought you a coffee” and walk away. Its a pleasure to see the look of surprise on their faces. There can be some suspicion, but I think that was mostly in the early days when I didnt know how to do it properly. I would walk up quite nervously like I was doing something wrong and I didnt know when to leave. In the end, I learned through __trial_and_error__. Sometimes it worked, and other times it didnt. I discovered that you have to walk up with confidence and humour and not “get in their faces”. You say, “This is for you”， then you go. Its hit-and-run kindness. And there is no point in doing it half-heartedly. Youve got to do it because you really mean it. Join Me is without geographical boundaries, but there are quite a few members in London, and such stories about things happen on the underground or on the buses. One lady got on the bus and put a ￡10 note down and said, “Thats for me and the next nine people.” So at every stop, anyone who got on was told it was paid for. A lot of people were doing this sort of thing anyway. For them its a