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1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家 版权所有高考资源网- 1 -江苏省宜兴市宜兴市 2015 高考英语一轮高考英语一轮阅读理解练习（3）及答案阅读理解。阅读理解。Why laughter mattersAlthough most people believe that laughter is one of the natures great treatments for a whole range of mental and physical diseases, it is still a serious scientific subject that researchers are tryin
2、g to figure out.“Laughter above all else is a social thing， ” says Baltimore neuroscientist, Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for decades. “All laughter groups laugh hahaha basically the same way. Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. There is a pa
3、ttern generator(发生器) in our brain that produces this sound.”Laughing is our first way of communicating. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches them how to laugh. They just do. People may laugh at a prank(恶作剧) on April Fools Day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the
4、 result of someone making a joke. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather than to a joke. Deaf people laugh without hearing and people on cell phones laugh without seeing, showing that laughter isnt dependent on single sense but on social interactions.And laughter is not just a thing of peo
5、ple. Chimps tickle(挠痒) each other and even laugh when another chimp pretends to tickle them.Jaak Panksepp, a Bowling Green University Psychology professor, studies rats that laugh when he tickles them. It turns out rats love to be tickledthey return again and again to the hands of researchers tickli
6、ng them.By studying rats, scientists can figure out whats going on in the brain during laughter. Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor, Jeffrey Burgdorf has found that laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepressant(抗抑郁药). He thinks the same thing probably happ
7、ens in humans, too. This would give doctors a new chemical target to develop drugs that can fight depression.Even so, laughter itself has not been proved to be the best medicine, experts say. 高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家 版权所有高考资源网- 2 -Margaret Stuber, a professor at University of California, studied whether lau
8、gher helped patients. She found that distraction(分心) and mood improvement helped, but she could not find a benefit of laughter alone.“No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit， ” Provine said, largely because its hard to separate laughter from just feeling good. But he thinks
9、 it doesnt really matter, “Isnt the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough？”1The most important finding of Robert Provines research is that _Alaughter makes a person feel goodBlaughter depends on different sensesClaughter is a quality people are born withDlaughter is a social response s
10、hared by all creatures2According to the passage, scientists studied rats in order to find _Aif they can laugh Bif they like laughingCwhat laughter in rats produces Dhow rats react while being tickled3What can we learn from the passage?APatients will recover if they laugh enough.BLaughter is a means
11、of communication as well as a language.CA new medicine has been developed based on the laughter research.DScientists can know what is happening in a human brain when he laughs.4Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?A. B.C. D.高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家 版权所有高考资源网- 3 -CP: Central point P: Poi
12、nt Sp: Subpoint(次要点) C: Conclusion【要点综述】 “笑”既是人类也是动物的一种交际行为，多数人认为“笑”是治疗身体疾病和心理疾病的有效方式之一。 “笑”是否与健康有直接的联系，尚无科学定论，但是， “笑”能使你身心愉悦，这毕竟是一件好事。1A 推理判断题。根据最后一段“Isnt the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough？”可知 A 项正确。2C 事实细节题。根据第六段“laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepres
13、sant(抗抑郁药) ”可知。故 C 项正确。3B 事实细节题。根据第二段“All laughter groups laughhahaha basically the same way.”以及第三段“Laughing is our first way of communicating.”可知， “笑”既是一种交际方式也是一种所有物种都能理解的语言。故 B 项正确。4D 篇章结构题。文章第一节首先提出话题：尽管“笑”被认为是治疗身体疾病和心理疾病的方式之一，但是它仍旧是研究者们试图想弄明白的一个严肃的科研项目；接着文章从两个方面来论述主观点：(1)“笑”是人类的行为：Laughter above
14、 all else is a social thingLaughing is our first way of communicating；(2)“笑”也是动物的行为：And laughter is not just a thing of people；最后得出结论：“笑”是否与健康有直接的联系尚无科学定论，但是，“笑”能使人身心愉悦，这毕竟是一件好事。综上可知 D 项正确。阅读理解-2013北京卷 Tail SpinTwo dolphins race around in a big pool in the Ocean Park. The smaller dolphin, Grace, shows off a few of her tricks, turning around and waving hello to the crowd. The most amazing thing about 高考资源网（） 您身
