56.　 What effect does laughter have?

55.　 Why can man laugh while other animals can not?

54.　 When one is laughing, you can hear sounds of his pleased voice and see _________.

53.

Hazard Alley is preparing its official opening, and the local schools which have experienced it so far have been testing out the centre before it launches into a full programme of group visits. It is already proving immensely popular. Eventually it may open to individual family groups. When that happens, it will be well worth a day trip: children will love it and they could learn something which may save their lives.　

Section D

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

For centuries, scientists have sought a clear explanation for laughter. One writer said that its function is to make something known or to gain fame over others. Another took the opposite view: we laugh in order not to cry.

　　 Laughter is an emotional response, showing one’s feelings of joy, involving characteristic sounds of the voice and movements of the features and the body. Speech is the spoken expression of symbols and the relations between symbols. With the development of speech, the number of occasions producing sudden experiences of pleasure increased, and since laughter was closely associated with speech, man had this means of expressing his pleasure. Man could express with laughter what other animals could not. Since the lower animals had no speech, they met fewer pleasurable situations and furthermore, were unable to laugh. Laughter gradually became established as man’s ability and therefore, it survived.

　　 Now it is well-known that laughter has a refreshing effect on the mind and body, giving the body a feeling of well-being that few other activities are able to provide.

　　 The smile comes before laughter, as shown clearly by the infant who can smile after six days, but can only laugh at twelve weeks. By the twelve-week state he becomes a comparatively well-developed creature, although not much differently equipped physically than he was at six days. At twelve weeks, although he cannot speak, he begins to understand the general meaning and tone of human sounds, and the dawn of the smile becomes the bright noonday sunlight of clear laughter. Therefore, we may again connect the origin of laughter with the origin of speech, as indicated by the gradual development of these two capacities in the human infant.

You are laughing because man learned to speak and therefore to laugh, and because nature confers benefits on the animal capable of laughter.

Answer the questions or complete the statements with NO MORE THAN 13 WORDS.

52.

The project was started by the local authority in association with the police. The finance came from commercial sponsorship(赞助)by companies including Coca-cola, Volkswagen and Anglia TV. There is already a catchy cartoon character mascot(吉祥物)for the centre: Haza, the Hazard Alley cat.

51.

We are standing inside a converted warehouse in Milton Keynes, home of a project which is the blueprint for an exciting new way of teaching children safety awareness, especially road safety. It is called Hazard Alley. If the centre proves successful and, having visited it, I am convinced it will, then its imaginative approach could easily be copied throughout the country.

50.

It is all extraordinarily realistic, but it is unreal. For the difference between this and thousands of similar locations throughout the country is that this street is indoors – it is a mock-up(实体模型)designed by studio set-builders from Anglia Television.

49.　 　

It is a typical urban scene. Two cars are parked close together at the roadside and a child is attempting to cross the road from between them. Down the street, another car comes belting along. Houses flank the pavements and around the corner there is a brightly-lit petrol station.

48.　 The passage is mainly about ______.

A. varied sea food consumption rates

B. advantages of sea food consumption

C. recommendations for a sea food diet　 　　

D. the difference between white meat and red meat

Section C

Directions: Read the following text and choose the most suitable heading from the list A - F for each paragraph. There is one extra heading which you do not need.

47.　 The risks of the following can be lowered EXCEPT ______, if one eats sea food regularly.

A. dementia　　　　　　　　　 B. stroke　　　　　　　 C. poisoning　　　　　 D. heart attack