12．Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile（无用的） to laugh in the face of pain and fear．
When Dan Rather interviewed comedian Bill Cosby just one week after his son，Ennis，was killed，Cosby said，"I think it is time for me to tell people that we have to laugh．You can turn painful situations around through laughter．If you can find humor in anything，you can survive it．"
Call it a flashlight for dark times：laughter just seems to adjust attitude better than anything else．Inspirational speaker Steve Rizzo recalls a TV interview with an injured firefighter a few days after 9.11．The man had fallen more than 30stories in one of the towers and had broken a leg．Everyone was crying，and the reporter asked，"How is it that you've come out of this alive？"He looked at her and without missing a beat，said，"Look，lady，I'm from New York and I'm a firefighter； that'all you need to know．"
"Everyone laughed and though the laughter was only a couple of seconds，"says Rizzo．"Sometimes that's all you need to catch your second breath．Laughter gives you that couple
of seconds．You're sending a message to your brain，and the message is：If you can still laugh even a little among the pain，you are going to be OK．"
Of course，there is a difference between laughing off a serious situation and laughing off the fear that results．The firefighter was doing the latter，states Rizzo，the author of Becoming a Humorous Being，and so should we．"If there is anything we have learnt from 9.11，it's how precious life really is，"she says．"We have to send a message that our spirit won't die．One important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh．"
25．The writer uses the examples of the comedian and the firefighter to showD．
A．it is your attitude that decides whether you can survive the pain or not
B．laughter is the best way to cure psychological wounds
C．laughter can make people feel calm or relaxed
D．laughter is a good way to get rid of pain and fear
26．We can infer from the passage that Steve Rizzo isA．
A．a reporter B．a soldier C．a firefighter D．a doctor
27．From the passage，we can know that Americans areB．
A．really happy after 9.11 B．greatly hurt by 9.11
C．nearly surprised by 9.11 D．hardly united after 9.11．
分析 本文属于说明文阅读，作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了笑容的重要性，笑容可以让你感到平静和放松身体甚至可以治愈心理创伤，作者旨在通过这篇文章呼吁受过9.11创伤的人们重拾笑容，走出阴影．
解答 25．D．推理判断题．根据文章第一段Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm orrelaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futileto laugh in the face of pain and fear．可以看出这是文章的主旨，下面的两个例子都是围绕着这个主旨展开的，所有推断出A选项"笑能够摆脱痛苦和恐惧"最符合题意；故选D．
26．A．细节推理题．根据文章states Rizzo，the author of Becoming a Humorous Being可以看出Steve Rizzo是一个作者，所有a reporter最符合他的身份；故选A．
27．B．主旨推测题．根据文章最后段"If there is anything we have learnt from 9.11，it's how precious life really is，"she says．"We have to send a message that our spirit won't die．One important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh．""作者希望人们忘记9.11的阴影学会笑容，可以推测出美国人受到了9.11的严重的伤害；故选B．
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力，做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句，和题干进行比较，再做出正确的选择．在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实，要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断．
