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There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” 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. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. 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. 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 the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. 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.
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. 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.
1. The main idea of the passage is _____.
A. laughter and physical exercise have similar effects on the human body
B. smile can produce the same effects as laughter
C. pain can be reduced by laughter
D. laughter is the best medicine
2. The students who _____ tolerated the pain for the longest time.
A. listened to different radio programs
B. could produce a kind of chemicals
C. don’t have stress or pain
D. listened to a funny program
3. The underlined word “diminish” is similar to _____.
A. test B. stop C. reduce D. increase
4. Doctors hold laughter clinics _____.
A. to give better condition to their patients
B. in order to improve patients' health
C. to make patients smile
D. to prove smile and laughter have the same effect

Answer 1

答案都在原文中，只要认识单词，顺藤摸瓜就能找到。加油！

1.D There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.”
2.D The group that tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program
3.C 减少
4. A 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.

Answer 2

1、D每段都讲了laughter的益处。ABC只是文中的某一小点，片面，不足以概括全文。
A只在第一段提到，B只在末段提到，C只在第二段提到。
2、D根据文中第二段“The group that tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. ”
3、C根据文中第二段最后一句话“ 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.”
由【diminish】 前： it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain可知，laughter有益处，所以推测后文应该是【减轻】压力和疼痛。
4、A根据末段“some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help（ to improve their patients’ condition ）by encouraging them to laugh. ”

Answer 3

D
D
C
B

Answer 4

1.D 2.D 3.C 4.A