Read the passage below and answer each question that follows…
Read the passage below and answer each question that follows with the answer most logically supported by the information given. 1What is it about humor that makes us laugh? 2The clue can be found in the fact that almost all jokes contain a contradiction between two realities, usually a conventional and an unconventional one. 3These two realities represent conflicting definitions of the same situation. 4To make people laugh, we first make them clearly aware of their taken-for-granted conventional definition of a situation and then surprise them by contradicting that definition with an unconventional one. 5Look, for example, at the following joke from a study by one researcher: 6My wife comes home and says, “Pack your bags. 7I just won $20 million in the California lottery.” 8“Where are we going? Hawaii? Europe?” I ask jubilantly. 9She says, “I don’t know where you’re going, Doug, as long as it’s out of here.” 10The first two sentences set up in our mind the conventional assumption that the married couple will share the joy of winning the lottery. 11The punch line strikes down that assumption with the unexpected, unconventional reality that a presumably loving wife wants to be free from her husband. The humor in the joke comes from the