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Japanese professor Yoji Kimura believes laughter is a weapon that in healthy doses(剂量) can end the world’s wars. To measure it, the expert on communications has invented a machine to chart out laughter—and a new unit of “aH” to calculate it.
“We have found that children laugh more freely, releasing(释放)10 aH per second, which is about twice as much as an adult,” Kimura, a professor at Kansai University in the western city of Osaka, told reporters. “Adults tend to calculate whether it’s appropriate to laugh and under those restraints(克制) they eventually forget how,” he said.
“Laughing is like a restart function on a computer. Laughing freely is very important in the course of human development,” he said.
Kimura, who believes in “a change from a century of wars to a century of humor and tolerance,” has studied the science of laughter for decades in Osaka. In his theory, human laughter is produced in four emotional stages. “I believe there is a circuit(回路) in the human brain that creates laughter,” Kimura said confidently.
To measure laughter, he attaches sensors on the skin of a tested people’s stomach, particularly the diaphragm(横膈膜), and detects muscle movements. “I have a theory that humor detected in the brain gets directly released through the movement of diaphragm,” he said. By checking the movement of the diaphragm and other parts of the body, it will be possible to see if a person is only pretending to laugh while also telling different types of laughter, Kimura said.
Kimura wants to make the measuring device as small as a mobile phone and possibly market it as a health and amusement device. Kimura said he planned to present his findings this summer to the US-based International Society for Humor Studies, adding that he looked forward to looking at differences in laughter internationally

  1. 1.

    According to the passage, Professor Yoji Kimura _____

    1. A.
      thinks banning weapon can end wars in the world
    2. B.
      has put his machine calculating laughter into market
    3. C.
      has been studying laughing for many years
    4. D.
      is an expert in people’s health problem
  2. 2.

    Why do adults laugh less freely?

    1. A.
      Because they are busy with their work
    2. B.
      Because they are affected by some factors
    3. C.
      Because they use computers too often
    4. D.
      Because they don’t think it good to laugh much
  3. 3.

    The measuring device of Yoji Kimura _____

    1. A.
      has functions of a mobile phone
    2. B.
      can make people laugh more
    3. C.
      can recognize different kinds of laughter
    4. D.
      will be popular in the international market soon
  4. 4.

    The passage mainly tells us something about _____

    1. A.
      how to measure laughter
    2. B.
      Yoji Kimura and laughing
    3. C.
      laughing as much as possible
    4. D.
      a device that is made to measure laughter
CBCD
1.细节题:从第四段的句子:Kimura, who believes in “a change from a century of wars to a century of humor and tolerance,” has studied the science of laughter for decades in Osaka. 看出Yoji Kimura 教授已经研究笑声很多年了。选C
2.推理题:从第二段的句子:“Adults tend to calculate whether it’s appropriate to laugh and under those restraints(克制) they eventually forget how,”说明成年人不会自由的笑。选B
3.细节题:从倒数第二段的句子:By checking the movement of the diaphragm and other parts of the body, it will be possible to see if a person is only pretending to laugh while also telling different types of laughter,说明这种设备可以辨别出不同的笑声。选C
4.主旨题:文章最后一段对全文总结:Kimura wants to make the measuring device as small as a mobile phone and possibly market it as a health and amusement device.选D
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A powerful earthquake struck the northeastern coast of Japan at two forty-six p.m. local time on March eleventh.2011. Japan's Meteorological Agency released its first tsunami(海啸) warnings just three minutes later. The country has one of the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.
There are more than four thousand Seismic Intensity Meters in place throughout Japan to measure earthquake activity. These meters provide information within two minutes of an earthquake happening. Information about the strength and the center of the earthquake can be learned within three minutes.
There are also concrete(混凝土) sea walls around much of the Japanese coastline. But these measures proved no match for the powerful earthquake and tsunami.
Costas Synolakis ,a tsunami expert at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said,"Japan is one of those most well-prepared countries on earth in terms of tsunami warning. They had a warning. I think what went wrong is that they had not expected the size of this event."
He says there are two reasons for this. Japan has not had any event anywhere near as big as this one in the last one hundred fifty years. And scientists had not expected such a large earthquake happening off the coast of Japan.
The nine point zero magnitude earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded worldwide. It was also the worst earthquake ever to hit Japan. The tsunami waves that followed were reported to have reached as high as thirteen meters in some areas.
Costas Synolakis says Japan's concrete sea walls were not built to handle such high waves.
Experts say early warning systems will continue to be limited by these facts until earthquakes and tsunamis can be predicted
【小题1】Where can this passage probably be adapted from?

A.A magazine on scienceB.A fairy Tale
C.A scientific fantasy bookD.A newspaper
【小题2】Which of the following statements NOT true ?
A.A terrible earthquake hit the northeastern coast of Japan
B.It was also the worst earthquake in Japan
C.The 9.0 earthquake was the fourth most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan
D.Japan's concrete sea walls was unable to handle such high waves.
【小题3】According to Costas Synolakis, why did Japan suffer such a loss?
A.The country has never experienced any event as big as this one over the past 150 years
B.Japan has the best earthquake early warning systems in the world.
C.There are not concrete sea walls around all of the Japanese coastline
D.The government didn’t announce its first tsunami warnings three minutes earlier.

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