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【題目】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. Speak highly of B. Get close to

C. Look down on D. Feel content with

【4】Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】C

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析：本文屬于科普說明文，主要分析了除了笑話中有趣的部分之外，還有很多心理學(xué)上的因素導(dǎo)致人們會大笑。文章中還舉例進(jìn)行了說明。

【1】B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段第二句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.可知當(dāng)我進(jìn)行研究以后我發(fā)現(xiàn)除了笑話中有趣的部分之外，還有很多心理學(xué)上的因素導(dǎo)致人們會大笑。所以B項正確。

【2】D 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段第二、三句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.人們嘲笑那些不守規(guī)則過馬路的，是因為他們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己對這些人的憤怒的情感在這個節(jié)目中受到了人們的支持。故D正確。

【3】C 詞義猜測題。根據(jù)本句I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh.句中的or說明前后是選擇關(guān)系，下劃線的詞belittling和making fun of是近義詞，都是指嘲笑他人。故C項“看不起”與之一致。A項“高度評價”，B項“接近”，D項“對...滿意”與上下文不一致。

【4】B 篇章結(jié)構(gòu)題。文章第一段提出人們嘲笑他人有很多心理學(xué)上的原因，二、三兩段分別通過舉例和說理進(jìn)行闡述，最后一段進(jìn)行總結(jié)歸納。所以文章屬于總分總結(jié)構(gòu)，故B正確。