Question

【题目】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Many athletes have been told that smiling while 【1】(sweat ) will make our efforts feel easier. A marathon runner smiled widely through the final miles of his fastest-ever marathon ； afterward, he said what he had hoped 【2】(be) that the smiling would ease him to the finish line； But there has been little solid scientific evidence to support this idea. In recent years several past studies 【3】( examine)whether deliberately smiling can make changes to how people feel psychologically during races, 【4】few have looked at the physical effect 【5】 sports performance.

Researchers decided 【6】(gather) a group of experienced recreational runners and have them alternatively smile broadly as they ran. Many of the runners found it difficult to smile throughout the whole session, though. Their smiles became 【7】(increase) fixed and unnatural. Such false smiles make 【8】(few) facial muscles (肌肉)start working than the sincere version and most likely result in less 【9】(relax) and performance improvement. So the key to using a happy smile to make you 【10】better runner may be to smile sincerely and often near a race’s end, but in 30-second bursts, rather than constantly.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】sweating

【2】was

【3】have examined

【4】but

【5】on

【6】to gather

【7】increasingly

【8】fewer

【9】relaxation

【10】a

【解析】

本文是一篇说明文，介绍了研究人员发现用快乐的微笑使你成为一个更好的赛跑选手的关键是真诚地微笑而不是虚假的微笑。

【1】考查状语从句的省略。句意：许多运动员被告知，流汗时微笑会让我们的努力感觉更容易。在while引导的时间状语从句中，当主从句的主语一致，且含有be的某种形式时，可省略从句的主语和be，根据“our efforts”可知，从句的主语是we，we与sweat之间是主动关系，完整部分应该是while we are sweating，此处相当于省略了we are，故填sweating。

【2】考查时态和主谓一致。句意：特沃德说，他希望的是微笑能让他轻松地到达终点。讲述的是过去的事情，应该用一般过去时，主语为what he had hoped，谓语动词用第三人称单数，故填was。

【3】考查时态。句意：近年来，有几项研究已经检验了刻意微笑是否能改变人们在比赛时的心理感受，但很少有研究关注身体对运动成绩的影响。根据时间状语“In recent years”可知用现在完成时，故填have examined。

【4】考查连词。句意同上，根据句意可知前后是转折关系，故填but。

【5】考查介词。句意同上，have an effect on表示“对……有影响”，故填on。

【6】考查不定式。句意：研究人员决定召集一群有经验的娱乐赛跑选手，让他们一边跑一边开怀大笑。decide to do表示“决定做某事”，故填to gather。

【7】考查副词。句意：他们的笑容越来越僵硬，越来越不自然。修饰形容词fixed and unnatural用副词，故填increasingly。

【8】考查形容词比较级。句意：与真诚的微笑相比，虚假的微笑让参与工作的面部肌肉更少，而且带来的放松和成绩改善也更少。“than”表明用形容词比较级形式，故填fewer。

【9】考查名词。句意同上，作动词短语result in的宾语用名词，故填relaxation。

【10】考查冠词。句意：用快乐的微笑使你成为一个更好的赛跑选手的关键是真诚地微笑。runner是可数名词，此处用不定冠词表泛指，且runner首字母的发音为辅音因素，所以用冠词a。故填a。