完形填空（10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
Everybody loves a good joke. Even children at a very young age start ___ jokes to their friends. Some people are _   very good at telling funny stories. When they tell a joke, everyone finds it _3   But someone else telling the same joke may not make you laugh. This is because it is not only the end of the joke that has to be funny. A good joke-teller is amusing ____ telling the whole story.
Some people are witty (诙谐的，风趣的) in their normal everyday conversation. They say humorous things all the time. They can quickly see two ____ words in the same word and then like to make puns (双关语). If someone says to them, after their trip to the US. "How did you find New York?" They will probably answer by saying something like, "By driving south from Boston!"
There is another type of humor where people play jokes on their __   .  They tease them by saying untrue things like, "Someone just ____ me that our English teacher is going to give us a test today." When their friends start to worry, they laugh and say, "I am only ___." These people love to make ____ of you, make you silly and ridiculous. And nobody likes to be made fun of, ___, of course, on April 1^st. On this day, everyone is allowed to play jokes on their friends.

A．saying B．telling C．speaking D．talking

A．always B．sometimes C．never D．hardly

A．exciting B．relaxing C．surprisng D．amusing

A．before B．while C．after D．until

A．different B．same C．similar D．opposite

A．teachers B．students C．friends D．family

A．taught B．answered C．asked D．told

A．kidding B．asking C．playing D．talking

A．use B．fun C．story D．friends

A．though B．besides C．except D．however