Question

【題目】There is an English saying: “【1】.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body. 【2】.

Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.【3】If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.

Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated(忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program.【4】.

【5】They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.

A. Laughter can prolong one’s life

B. Laughter is the best medicine

C. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health

D. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put this theory into clinic practice

E. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet

F. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh

G. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】E

【4】G

【5】F

【解析】

試題分析：這篇文章主要針對人們在生活中常常感到空虛這一現(xiàn)象提出了一些好的建議，希望幫助大家能夠用心享受生活中的每一刻。

【1】B，根據(jù)上一句“Everyone wants to fully live every day每個人都想要生活得充實”和下一句的So可知中間缺乏轉折，應該是大家并不容易做到充分利用好生活才需要下文的建議。句意：微笑是生活最佳的良藥。故填B。

【2】C，根據(jù)下文微笑對身體產(chǎn)生許多的影響的研究可知，這一段是為了介紹笑容對人的好處。句意：他們發(fā)現(xiàn)大笑可以改善人們的身體健康。故選C。

【3】 E，根據(jù)本段內容來看，主要是介紹笑容對人的身體健康各方面的益處，句意：笑容可以增加血壓、心跳和呼吸；它也使許多組面部肌肉，肚子甚至腳得到鍛煉，故選E。

【4】G，這一段主要圍繞笑容是如何幫助人減輕身體疼痛展開的，然后對其中的原因進行解釋，句意：笑容能夠減輕疼痛的原因似乎在于，它能夠幫助人們在大腦中產(chǎn)生一種物質來減輕壓力和痛苦，故選G。

【5】F，根據(jù)本段最后一句I可知醫(yī)生幫助病人微笑也可以起到類似于讓她們開懷大笑的效果，所以美國有很多醫(yī)生采用了這種方法，句意：因為這些發(fā)現(xiàn)，美國的一些醫(yī)生現(xiàn)在開設了一些笑容治療的診所，他們通過鼓勵病人大笑來改善病人們的身體狀況。故選F。