Question

【题目】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】

试题分析：这篇文章主要针对人们在生活中常常感到空虚这一现象提出了一些好的建议，希望帮助大家能够用心享受生活中的每一刻。

【1】B，根据上一句“Everyone wants to fully live every day每个人都想要生活得充实”和下一句的So可知中间缺乏转折，应该是大家并不容易做到充分利用好生活才需要下文的建议。句意：微笑是生活最佳的良药。故填B。

【2】C，根据下文微笑对身体产生许多的影响的研究可知，这一段是为了介绍笑容对人的好处。句意：他们发现大笑可以改善人们的身体健康。故选C。

【3】 E，根据本段内容来看，主要是介绍笑容对人的身体健康各方面的益处，句意：笑容可以增加血压、心跳和呼吸；它也使许多组面部肌肉，肚子甚至脚得到锻炼，故选E。

【4】G，这一段主要围绕笑容是如何帮助人减轻身体疼痛展开的，然后对其中的原因进行解释，句意：笑容能够减轻疼痛的原因似乎在于，它能够帮助人们在大脑中产生一种物质来减轻压力和痛苦，故选G。

【5】F，根据本段最后一句I可知医生帮助病人微笑也可以起到类似于让她们开怀大笑的效果，所以美国有很多医生采用了这种方法，句意：因为这些发现，美国的一些医生现在开设了一些笑容治疗的诊所，他们通过鼓励病人大笑来改善病人们的身体状况。故选F。