4.A.involve     B.analysis         C.immediately     D.certain     E.worth
F.remarks     G.upset         H.slightly         I.respond     J.note

Why does a woman have the last (and longest) laugh?The answer is that women enjoy a joke more once they get it.If you tell a woman a joke and get a blank look,don't(41)Cdespair.She's just taking her time to understand it.But if the punchline(妙语)does eventually make her laugh it will be(42)Ethe wait.
Scientists have found that while women are slower than men at getting jokes,they enjoy them more when they truly understand.Research shows that women use their brain more than men to process witty(43)Fand have less expectation that they will be funny.
When a joke does hit the right(44)J,however,women derive more pleasure from it.Scientists asked ten men and ten women to look at dozens of black and white cartoons and rate them on a"funniness scale".During the process they underwent sophisticated scans that mapped which parts of their brain were lighting up and timed how long it took them to(45)I to a joke.The women tended to use(46)D parts of their brain.Professor Allan Reiss said:"We found greater activity in the parts of their brain in women,showing women are processing stimuli that(47)Alanguage areas of the brain."
The(48)B of a"feelgood"brain region also revealed that men and women have different attitudes to humour.Experts said:"Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward.So they were more pleased about it."The funnier the cartoon,the more the women's parts of their brain lit up.This was not the case for men.The women took(49)H longer than the men to react to jokes that were funny-but were quicker to spot the"truth".

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