With the goal of developing a new，more satisfactory explanation，I produced “the gentle violation(违背)theory”，the idea that humor arises when something seems wrong or threatenin，but is actually OK or safe．A dirty joke，for example，trades on moral or social violations，but it’ only going to get a laugh if the person listening is open enough to consider the subject OK to talk about．Similarly，puns can be seen as linguistic violations that still make grammatical sense．

　　And while most humor theories have struggled to account for tickling (挠痒痒)，or just avoided the phenomenon altogether，my theory accounts for even this kind of laughter．Tickling involves violating someone’ physical space in a gentle way．People an’t tickle themselves — because it isn’t a violation．

　　52．What is the author’ attitude towards Plato and Aristotle’s theory?

　　A．Critical．B．ApprovingC．uncaringD．Unclear

　　53． According to Sigmund Freud’ theory，we can infer that

　　A．people will laugh when they see others suffer

　　B．telling dirty jokes is a relief of one’ nervous feelings

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　　C．unexpectedness can explain how humor works

　　D．tickling doesn’t involve psychological tension

　　54．According to the author，why are some things funny to some people but not to others?

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