If you intend using humor in your talk tomake people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences andproblems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to showthem that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are insympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, theproblems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers,you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternativelyif you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganizedbosses.Here is an example, which I heard at anurses' convention, of a story which works well because the audience all sharedthe same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around bySt. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather,and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in aline for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a whitecoat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to atable by himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter."Oh, that's God." came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he'sa doctor."If you are part of the group which you areaddressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problemswhich are common to all of you and it'll be appropriate for you to make apassing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman's notorious badtaste in ties. With other audiences you mustn't attempt to cut in with humor asthey will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen ortheir chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like thePost Office or the telephone system.If you feel awkward being humorous, youmust practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual andapparently off-the-cuff(即兴的)remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.Often it's the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly andremember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that youare making a light-hearted remark.Look for the humor. It often comes from theunexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don't succeed,give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration andunderstatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences whichyou can turn about and inject with humor.1.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 your listeners. 2. The joke about doctors implies that, inthe eyes of nurses, they are ________. A．impolite to new arrivals.　　 B．very conscious of their godlike role. C．entitled to some privileges.　　 D．very busy even during lunch hours. 3. It can be inferred from the text thatpublic services ________. A．have benefited many people.　　 B．are the focus of public attention. C．are an inappropriate subject for humor.　 D．have often been the laughing stock. 4.To achieve the desired result, humorousstories should be delivered ________. A．in well-worded language.　 B．as awkwardly as possible. C．in exaggerated statement.　　 D．as casually as possible. 5. The best title for the text may be________. A．Use Humor Effectively.　　 B．Various Kinds of Humor. C．Add Humor to Speech. D．Different Humor Strategies.