Question

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, makes the heart beat quicker and makes people breathe deeper; 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 (忍耐) 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 chemical in the brain which reduces 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.

Laughter
As a proverb goes, “Laughter is the best 1. .”	Doctors have found that laughter really can improve people’s 2. .
Some different tests conducted by doctors.	●Some doctors carried out some tests to study the 3. of laughter on one’s 4. While doctors checked their heart, blood pressure and so forth, people were asked to watch 5. films. As a result, it 6. heart beating and blood pressure.
Other tested showed laughter is able to reduce the effects of 7.	●Laughter helps to produce a kind of 8.in the brain which can 9. both stress and pain. ●Doctors hold laughter clinics in order to improve patients’ 10..

 

Answer 1

1.medicine

2.health

3.effects

4.body

5.funny

6.increases

7.pain

8.chemical

9.reduce

10.condition

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了笑对人的好处，对病人的病情好转也有利。

1.There is an English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.”可知笑是最好的良药，故填medicine

2.They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health.可知笑可以改善人的健康，故填health

3.Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body.可知研究的是笑的影响，故填effects

4. were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body可知实验是用来研究笑对身体的影响，故填body

5.People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart可知他们看的是有趣的电影，故填funny

6.It increases blood pressure, makes the heart beat quicker and makes people breathe deeper可知笑可以增加血压，故填increases

7.Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.可知笑可以减少痛苦，故填pain

8.it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which reduces both stress and pain.可知笑可以帮助产生一种化学物质，故填chemical

9.it helps to produce a kind of chemical in the brain which reduces both stress and pain.可知减少压力和痛苦，但在问题中有情态动词can，故填reduce而不是reduces

10.in which they help to improve their patients’ condition可知是为了改善病人的条件，故填condition

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