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 or belittling someone 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. What is the author’s attitude towards those who take pleasure in making fun of others?
A defensive B indifferent C negative D casual
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_____ the government recovers the vehicle purchase tax and the oil prices go up continuously, the sales of the vehicle in China are still increasing every year.
A. When B. Once C. Since D. While
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Clara Barton, born on Christmas in 1821, is widely known as one of the most honored women in American history. She began teaching school when most teachers were men at that time. Later, she became one of the first women ever to be employed by the government.
Her career in helping the sick began when her brother David became her first patient. He fell down from the roof of a house when Clara was just 11 years old. She stayed by his side and looked after him for three years, learning how to give him all his medicines.
When the Civil War began in 1861, she immediately recognized that the poorly equipped soldiers needed help. Instead of waiting for others to step in, Clara collected necessary things on her own, asked the public for donations and learned how to store and distribute them to soldiers. She also read to the soldiers and wrote letters for them.
After the Battle of Cedar Mountain in northern Virginia in 1862, Clara arrived at a field hospital at midnight with a vehicle full of supplies. A doctor named Paul Smith at that hospital would later write, “I thought heaven had sent out an angel that night — her assistance arrived at exactly the right time.”
In 1869, Clara went to Europe and learned about the International Committee of the Red Cross. Upon her return to the United States, she successfully founded the American Red Cross. She led the organization for the next 23 years. Her last field mission (使命) as president of the American Red Cross was to help the victims of the 1900 Galveston hurricane. She did not retire (退休) from the American Red Cross until she was 83. True to her nature, Clara always went to where the need was the greatest.
Today, the American Red Cross continues the mission Clara started more than 100 years ago. With the help of thousands of volunteers, the American Red Cross provides relief to victims of disasters, as well as helps people prevent, prepare for and respond to all sorts of emergencies.
1.We can learn from Paragraph 2 that Clara Barton was _____.
A. honest B. caring C. talented D. modest
2.After the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton _____.
A. joined the army and fought bravely
B. went to Europe for further study
C. continued to work as a teacher
D. did a lot to help soldiers
3.Seeing Clara Barton’s arrival, Dr. Smith must have felt _____.
A. excited and grateful
B. proud and joyful
C. shy and nervous
D. sad and sorry
4.What is mainly described in Paragraph 5?
A. The aim of the American Red Cross.
B. The importance of voluntary donations.
C. Clara Barton and the American Red Cross.
D Clara Barton’s contribution to the Civil War.
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根据短文内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Summer is the season of family travel. 1. Here are our top 5 things to teach your children before entering big crowds:
How Far They Can Go — 2. For young children, you should set a rule of always holding a parent’s hand. For older kids, you may be comfortable with a “I can always see you and you can always see me” rule.
To Call Your Real Name — Teach your children that you will find them, so it’s best if they stay in one place. What’s more, teach them to call out your full name instead of “Mommy” or “Daddy” to help you more easily find them.
How to Identify a “Safe Person” — Make sure your children know the best people to approach if they get separated from you. Employees working at the place you‘re visiting are generally always good, “safe people”. But what about places that may not have employees, like the beach? 3. Experts say that moms are often the most willing and best-equipped people to help kids.
What to say — 4. Remember that if your children do get separated from you, they will likely be panicked (恐慌), so don’t assume that they will know how to tell strangers that they are lost. Role-play getting lost and using simple sentences like, “I am lost” with your kids to help them know what to do if it actually happens.
Their Personal Information — Make sure your children know as much basic personal information as possible, including their full names, parents’ full names and telephone numbers and the address. 5.
A. Teach your children to look for a mom with kids.
B. Sometimes it’s not hard to find a safe person in such places.
C. But do your kids know what to do if they get separated from you?
D. If your kids are too young to remember them, write them down!
E. It can be hard for people to help a lost child.
F. Tell your children to behave normally when they get lost.
G. It’s important to talk with your children about how close you expect them to stay to you.
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阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（限填1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
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6. (lucky), the man survived, but the incident forced the driver 7. (stop) the train. An l8-minute delay followed the incident, 8. led to a break in the running of other trains on the route.
The Smartphone 9. (addict) has spread like an infectious（传染的）disease. It’s evident that it will do great harm to society. What’s even 10. (bad), some addicts become impatient with relatives and friends.
Some people blame the smartphone for the sad story, yet in fact people’s weakening self-control and self-discipline are to blame.
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短文填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Some time ago, a light passenger plane flew 1. course(航线) and thus crashed in the mountains and the pilot 2. (kill). The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt. It was the middle of winter. Snow 3. (lie) thick on the ground. The woman knew that the nearest village was kilometers away and she was not strong enough 4. (carry) her baby daughters there. When it grew dark, she turned the suit-case into a bed, where the children, 5. (cover) with all the clothes she could find, could be protected from the wind. During the night, it got 6. (terrible) cold. The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small. Early next morning, she heard planes 7. (fly) overhead and wondered how she could send a signal. Then she had an idea. She wrote the letters SOS in the snow. Luckily, a pilot saw 8. signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town. It was not long 9. a helicopter arrived on the scene to save the 10. (survive) of the plane crash.
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阅读下面短文, 根据其内容写一篇60词左右的内容概要。
With global warming and melting ice, it isn’t easy being a polar bear anymore. Some studies have predicted that polar bears could die out by the end of the century. The good news is not all researchers think the bears are absolutely disappearing. Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History(AMNH) have published a new paper indicating that things might not be as bad for polar bears as some scientists expect.
To understand the reason for the researchers’ cautious optimism, we must first understand the factors that are threatening the polar bear’s existence. Polar bears consume a diet of mainly young seals. In order to hunt these seals, polar bears need to rest at the top of sea ice---the same ice that is increasingly melting for most of the year thanks to climate change. In another 50 years, experts expect that the Arctic will be too warm for sea ice to form for half of the year, leaving polar bears without a reliable food source and in serious danger of starvation.
As it turns out, alternative food sources for the polar bears aren’t completely out of the question. For as long as biologists have tailed after the animals, they’ve seen polar bears eating animals found on land like caribou(驯鹿) and snow geese---as well as the snow geese’s eggs.
Can polar bears actually survive off these alternative food sources for long periods of time? To figure this out, researchers calculated the nutrients that a caribou and snow geese diet would provide. They found that even adult male polar bears would be able to obtain more calories than would burn in hunting these meals. Moreover, the food would provide the food lecessary to avoid starvation during the summer months.
Unfortunately, not all polar bears have tended to seek food on land. That said, the researchers expect that necessity would push more polar bears to hunt on land to avoid starvation. They also expect that the bears could learn from their fellow bears how to hunt on land until the practice becomes second nature.
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完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A, B, C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I sat in the chair reflecting on the past year. At that time, my _________ Charley came into the room. Charley took one look at my face and she could _________ I was off in another world. Charley said, “You have that _________ on your face! Tell me what you were_________ ”. “Well, Charley,” I replied, “I was listening to a song on the radio that asked_________ you have done over the last year. When I _________ on the year, I’ve realized I have had such good fortune, with a few bumps (碰撞) along the way.”
Charley immediately asked, “Tell me about the three things that _________ you the most during this year.”
I sat thinking if I had to _________ only three things that influenced me, what would they be? After a few minutes, I said, “OK, here are the three things that influenced me the most: My family. Throughout the year I had many _________, but my family were always there _________ support and encouragement. My friends. Over the years I have _________ my dreams and my goals with my friends. Some goals I have _________ and other goals I have not. _________ friends like you always supported and _________me. My colleagues. I have worked with some_________ people over the last year. I have been very _________ to have the opportunity to work with these excellent people over the last year.”
Charley smiled and said, “Do you realize that everything you have said has one thing in _________ ?”
“What are you saying, Charley?” I asked.
She replied, “One common thing is _________ . Neither the material things in your life, nor your job has had the most meaning in your life. It is the people in your life that have made the biggest _________ in your life!”
I smiled. Material things are not _________ , and while our jobs provide the means of existence for us, the important things in life are the people who touched our lives.
1.A. sister B. classmate C. mother D. frie nd
2.A.argue B. suggest C. tell D. wonder
3.A. look B. appearance C. mark D. mask
4.A. doing B. thinking C. listening D. annoying
5.A. where B. that C. what D. why
6.A. call B. talk C. insist D. reflect
7.A. influenced B. demanded C. entertained D. motivated
8.A. write B. pick C. get D. own
9.A. plans B. experiences C. challenges D. achievements
10.A. receiving B. expecting C. winning D. offering
11.A. shared B. provided C. connected D. compared
12.A. set B. realized C. failed D. scored
13.A. But B. Meanwhile C. Otherwise D. Unless
14.A. accepted B. satisfied C. replaced D. encouraged
15.A. stupid B. brave C. amazing D. ordinary
16.A. fortunate B. miserable C. unhappy D. surprised
17.A. character B. store C. common D. nature
18.A. effort B. spirit C. motivation D. people
19.A. choice B. difference C. problem D. progress
20.A. useful B. important C. practical D. unnecessary
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Would you drop in at my house this afternoon if _______?
A. you are convenient
B. it is convenient for you
C. it is convenient of you
D. you will be convenient
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