5.A推理判断题。通过全文作者照顾祖母和照顾家庭，可以看出作者Caring；通过作者坚持不懈的学习，最终拿到学位，可以看出作者的决心determine，选A。

　　【重庆市南开中学2017二诊考试请阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的A，B，C，D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

　　Why do we laugh and get amusement from so many different things，from puns (双关语) to pratfalls? Why are some things funny to some people and not to others? How is that while a successful joke an cause pleasure，a sick one an cause serious harm?

　　Over the centuries，various scholars have attempted to produce a universally agreed-upon theory of humor．Plato and Aristotle introduced the superiority(优越感theory，the idea that people laugh at the misfoe of others．Their theory seems to explain teasin，but it doesn’t work well for knock-knock jokes．Sigmund Freud argued for his relief theory，the concept that humor is a way for people to release psychological tension and reveal their inner fears and desires．His theory works well for dirty jokes，less well for most puns．

　　The majority of humor expels today agree with the incongruity theory，the idea that humor arises when there’ a gap between what people expect to happen and what actually happens．Incongruity has a lot going for it — jokes with unexpected funny lines，for example，fit well．But scientists have found that in comedy，unexpectedness i overvalued．

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