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【題目】Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh—and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.

I was attending a stand-up comedy show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasn’t only funny, it also made the audience feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.

The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you weren’t jealous of him.

In short, we don’t laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone orbelittlingsomeone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person’s emotions, he will certainly like it a lot.

【1】What did the author find out after studying psychology?

A. Only good jokes make people laugh

B. Many factors lead to people laughing.

C. Funny things can make people laugh

D. Laughter can make people healthy.

【2】Why did the audience laugh loud at the pedestrians?

A. They played a trick on the pedestrians.

B. The pedestrians behaved in a funny way.

C. They could feel the pedestrians’ happiness.

D. Their emotion was approved of by the show.

【3】What does the underlined word “belittling” probably mean?

A. Annoy B. Blame

C. Look down on D. Make up to

【4】Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】試題分析：在本文中作者闡述了自己的觀點，快樂不能建立在取笑別人的基礎之上，而是應考慮到別人的感受。

【1】B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段中While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke一句可知作者發(fā)現(xiàn)有很多因素導致人們發(fā)笑，故B選項正確。

【2】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got．一句，可知人們在感到好笑的同時，也體會到自己被認同，故答案選D。

【3】C詞義猜測題。根據(jù)前面making fun of（取笑）可知此處為貶義詞，故選C。look down on瞧不起。

【4】B推理判斷題。通讀全文可知，本文第一段一出話題，第二、三段進行舉例闡述，最后一段進行總結(jié)，故答案B正確。

【學法指導】

在細節(jié)考查題中有一類事實細節(jié)題 。該題屬于細節(jié)類型的閱讀理解題，一般只針對某個特定的細節(jié)，題型可以多種多樣。此類題型一般分兩種。第一種是直接理解題，在原文中可以直接找到答案。第二種是詞義轉(zhuǎn)換題，正確選項是原文有關詞語和句子的轉(zhuǎn)換。做此類試題一定要抓住事件發(fā)生的時間、地點、人物、發(fā)展過程和結(jié)局等環(huán)節(jié)，所選答案一定要符合原文，切不可望文生義。比如第33小題D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got．一句，可知人們在感到好笑的同時，也體會到自己被認同，故答案選D。