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核心素养一　 文化意识 131　　 核心素养一　 文化意识 Monday 　 英式戏剧和美式戏剧 阅读理解 新鲜度:★★★★★　 难度:★★★　 体裁:说明文　 词数:379　 正确率:　 / 5　 建议时间:8′ 　 　 Nobody laughed when the UK comedy show Little Britain toured the US. Americans didn􀆳t find the “British stereotypes(刻板印象)” funny. One character was a woman who was sick whenever she saw a foreigner. Another was a loud and rude 15-year-old girl cursing(骂) at her teachers. But back home,British people were laughing, thinking,“Yes! That􀆳s exactly what we􀆳re like!” A laugh is a laugh in any language,but the reasons for it can be very different. Britons and Americans speak the same language,but humor does not always translate. Take The Office as an example. This was originally a UK TV series but it was changed for the US. Both the US and UK series are set in a boring workplace in a boring town. But David Brent,the boss of the UK office,is not a nice guy like Michael Scott in the US version. “We had to make Michael Scott a slightly nicer guy,”wrote series creator Ricky Gervais. “He couldn􀆳t be too mean. ” Gervais said British people are different from Americans because “Britons cruelly make fun of people we like or dislike… and of ourselves”,He believes the differences between the American and British senses of humor are because of “our upbringing” . “Americans are brought up to believe they can be the next president of the United States,”he wrote. “Britons are told,‘ It won􀆳t happen for you’ . ” Things usually turn out fine at the end of every US Office episode (集) . Even if they􀆳re not perfect, the characters “ learn a lesson” for the future. But in David Brent􀆳s office—and in lots of UK comedies—the last scene is often sad. You are often left with the feeling that things just couldn􀆳t get worse. For British people,this seems truer to life and so much funnier. It􀆳s not just Britain and the US that have comic differences. Few foreigners would understand a Chinese cross- talk show,for example. Cultural differences are no laughing matter. But comic dif