Question

4．A．involve     B．analysis         C．immediately     D．certain     E．worth
F．remarks     G．upset         H．slightly         I．respond     J．note

Why does a woman have the last （and longest） laugh？The answer is that women enjoy a joke more once they get it．If you tell a woman a joke and get a blank look，don't（41）Cdespair．She's just taking her time to understand it．But if the punchline（妙语）does eventually make her laugh it will be（42）Ethe wait．
Scientists have found that while women are slower than men at getting jokes，they enjoy them more when they truly understand．Research shows that women use their brain more than men to process witty（43）Fand have less expectation that they will be funny．
When a joke does hit the right（44）J，however，women derive more pleasure from it．Scientists asked ten men and ten women to look at dozens of black and white cartoons and rate them on a"funniness scale"．During the process they underwent sophisticated scans that mapped which parts of their brain were lighting up and timed how long it took them to（45）I to a joke．The women tended to use（46）D parts of their brain．Professor Allan Reiss said："We found greater activity in the parts of their brain in women，showing women are processing stimuli that（47）Alanguage areas of the brain．"
The（48）B of a"feelgood"brain region also revealed that men and women have different attitudes to humour．Experts said："Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward．So they were more pleased about it．"The funnier the cartoon，the more the women's parts of their brain lit up．This was not the case for men．The women took（49）H longer than the men to react to jokes that were funny-but were quicker to spot the"truth"．

Answer 1

分析 文章讲述了女性在对笑话的反应上所需时间比男性要多一点，并通过一个实验来验证结果．

解答 CEFJIDABH
41．C 考查副词．根据后句She's just taking her time to understand it可知，她只是在花时间理解，所以别立即失望．
42．E 考查形容词．此处是一个固定短语，be worth+名词，值得…
43．F 考查名词．根据句意可知，女性比男性更多使用大脑处理一些诙谐的评论，故选remarks．
44．J考查名词．hit the note是固定搭配，意思是合适宜，句意为当一个笑话的确和适宜的时候．
45．I 考查动词．此处考查固定短语，respond to…对…做出反应．
46．D 考查形容词．根据句意可知，女性趋向使用大脑中的某个部分，certain是形容词，某个的意思．
47．A 考查动词．研究表明女性大脑中某些部分的大部分活动涉及语言区域，故involve是涉及符合语境．
48．B 考查名词．analysis 名词，分析．结合上句可知研究人员是在分析所得到的结果．
49．H 考查副词．最后一句总结全文的观点，即女性在对笑话的反应上时间比男性稍微多花一点，slightly   轻微地．

点评 选词填空是通过语篇在语境中考查语法知识的运用能力，在解题前应快速浏览短文掌握大意，在读懂短文的基础上，结合短文提供的特定的语言环境去逐句分析．要解决好填空，离不开坚实的语法知识，有了坚实的语法知识才能对语言进行正确的分析和判断，从而答对题目，选出正确的答案．