A sense of humor may take various forms and laughter may be anything from a refined tingle to an earth quaking roar, but the effect is always the same. Humor helps us to maintain a correct sense of values. It is the one quality which political fanatics appear to lack. If we can see the funny side, we never make the mistake of taking ourselves too seriously. We are always reminded that tragedy is not really far removed from comedy, so we never get a lop sided view of things.
This is one of the chief functions of satire and irony. Human pain and suffering are so grim; we hover so often on the brink of war; political realities are usually enough to plunge us into total despair. In such circumstances, cartoons and satirical accounts of somber political events redress the balance. They take the wind out of pompous and arrogant politicians who have lost their sense of proportion. They enable us to see that many of our most profound actions are merely comic or absurd. We laugh when a great satirist like Swift writes about war in Gulliver's Travels. The Lilliputians and their neighbors attack each other because they can't agree which end to break an egg. We laugh because we meant to laugh; but we are meant to weep too. It is too powerful a weapon to be allowed to flourish.
The sense of humor must be singled out as man's most important quality because it is associated with laughter. And laughter, in turn, is associated with happiness. Courage, determination, initiative these are qualities we share with other forms of life. But the sense of humor is uniquely human. If happiness is one of the great goals of life, then it is the sense of humor that provides the key.
The most important of all human qualities is ______.
A.a sense of humor
B.a sense of satire
C.a sense of laughter
D.a sense of history
第3题
A. 特发性腱索断裂
B. B.急性心肌梗死致乳头肌功能障碍
C. C.感染性心内膜炎致瓣叶毁损
D. D.创伤性二尖瓣关闭不全
E. E.人工二尖瓣瓣膜损坏
第4题
下列选项中,不属于常见的急性二尖瓣关闭不全病因的是
A、感染性心内膜炎
B、急性心肌梗死
C、心脏瓣膜手术
D、扩张型心肌病
E、心脏外伤
第5题
下列选项中,不属于常见的急性二尖瓣关闭不全病因的是
A.感染性心内膜炎
B.急性心肌梗死
C.心脏瓣膜手术
D.扩张型心肌病
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