题目内容
【题目】 The care center told us Dad's case was hopeless. Mom took him home and his spirits lifted under her care. Several months later, we decided to fly out and give my mother a break from nursing him.
On the last day of our trip, after finishing his walking treatment, I suggested that he "exercise" his fingers by playing his piano, but the fingers that had once flown over the keys with ease could barely strike one note. Paralysis（瘫痪）had taken away the number-one joy in Dad's life.
Helping him from his wheelchair to the piano bench, I placed his hands on the keys and the list on the piano. Seeing his stiff fingers devastated me and Dad. I lay back in my chair, closed my eyes and expected the worst. I couldn't believe my ears when The War We Were rang out, flowing with feeling and no mistakes. He continued playing down his list.
Quickly wiping my eyes, I felt grateful for what had taken place. I never thought I'd hear my dad's beautiful music again. Dad couldn't grasp what had happened during that hour and seemed confused. Instead of getting back in his wheelchair, he asked me to turn him around on the bench so that we could talk.
Starting with his earliest childhood memories, Dad shared his life story, telling tales I'd never heard before. It was a magical time for us, and we took turns wiping our eyes. When he became silent, I knew this moment had ended.
For the next hour, I found myself reliving priceless memories. Happy tears flowed as my father played every song I'd ever heard growing up, including favorites that we had danced to as children. Apparently, the wonderful stories he'd just shared had sparked his memory.
【1】Why did the author decide to go on a holiday?
A.To ease his father's feeling of hopelessness.
B.To accompany his father for the last family trip
C.To give his mother a rest from attending his father.
D.To help the doctor treat his father for his paralysis
【2】What does the underlined word "devastated" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A.Delighted.B.Interested
C.Worsened.D.Discouraged.
【3】What made the author's father puzzled?
A.He still remembered his childhood dreams.B.He could play his familiar music on the piano.
C.He was left alone at home with the author.D.He could stand up without the author's help.
【4】What did the author do after his father got silent?
A.Reflect on his old memories.B.Choose his father's favorite music.
C.Dance to the music his father played.D.Take his turn to take care of his father.
【答案】
【1】C
【2】D
【3】B
【4】A
【解析】
本文是一篇记叙文。作者的父亲患了重病, 坐在轮椅上的父亲在作者的鼓励下, 用僵硬的手指重新在钢琴上弹奏自己喜爱的乐曲, 这乐曲唤起了作者儿时的回忆。
【1】
细节理解题。第一段The care center told us Dad's case was hopeless. Mom took him home and his spirits lifted under her care. Several months later, we decided to fly out and give my mother a break from nursing him.得知, 在母亲的照顾下, 作者的父亲精神状态好了, 几个月之后, 为了让母亲在照料父亲的过程中休息一下, 我们就决定坐飞机出游, 故选C。
【2】
词义猜测题。根据第二段I suggested that he "exercise" his fingers by playing his piano, but the fingers that had once flown over the keys with ease could barely strike one note. Paralysis（瘫痪）had taken away the number-one joy in Dad's life. 得知，作者说服父亲弹钢琴活动手指。但是瘫痪已经夺走了父亲生活中最快乐的事情,看到父亲僵硬的手指, 这让作者和父亲都感到很沮丧, 故选D。
【3】
推理判断题。根据第四段Dad couldn't grasp what had happened during that hour and seemed confused.得知, 作者的父亲不相信自己在这一个小时的时间里所做的事, 即弹钢琴, 因此感到迷惑, 由此判断选B。
【4】
细节理解题。根据最后一段For the next hour, I found myself reliving priceless memories.得知, 作者在父亲沉默之后的一个小时回顾自己小时候的那些珍贵的记忆, 由此推断选A。
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What makes us laugh?
Why do we laugh? Well it’s funny you should ask, but this question is a very interesting one to investigate. For what at first seems like a simple question turns out to require a surprisingly complex answer –– one that takes us on a journey into the very heart of trying to understand human nature.
Most people would guess that we laugh because something is funny. But if you watch when people actually laugh, you’ll find this isn’t the case. Laughter expert Robert Provine spent hours recording real conversations at shopping malls, classrooms, offices and cocktail parties, and he found that most laughter did not follow what looked like jokes. People laughed at the end of normal sentences, in response to unfunny comments or questions such as “Look, it’s Andre”, or “Are you sure?”. Even attempts at humor that provoked laughter didn’t sound that funny.
So if we want to understand laughter, perhaps we need to go deeper, and look at what is going on in the brain. The areas that control laughing lie deep in the sub cortex(下皮层), and in terms of evolutionary development these parts of the brain are ancient, responsible for primal(原始) behaviors such as breathing and basic reflexes(反射). This means laughter control mechanisms are located a long way away from brain regions that developed later and control higher functions such as language or even memory.
Perhaps this explains why it is so hard to control a laugh, even if we know it is inappropriate. Once a laugh is started deep within our brains these “higher function” brain regions have trouble interfering. And the opposite is true, of course. It is difficult to laugh on demand. If you consciously make yourself laugh it will not sound like the real thing – at least initially.
But this does not fully answer the original question. To answer this, perhaps we need to look outwards, to look at the social factors at play when people laugh. Provine’s study suggests that it isn’t just some independent process that happens to us while we are talking to someone. He also found that laughter was most common in situations of emotional warmth and so-called “in-groupness”.
Perhaps “transmission” is another most important feature of laughter. Just listening to someone laugh is funny. You can even catch laughter from yourself. Start with a forced laugh and if you keep it up you will soon find yourself laughing for real.
What these observations show is that laughter is both fundamentally social, and rooted deep within our brains, part and parcel of ancient brain structures. All these things are true. And biologists say each time we get closer to an answer for a fundamental question, it deepens our appreciation of the challenge remaining to answer the others. And there is a long way to go.
What makes us laugh? | ||
Introduction | Studying laugh is closely 【1】to understanding human nature. | |
【2】 | ●The popular 【3】is not true that we laugh because something is funny. ●The study of real conversations reveals that laughter didn’t 【4】 follow funny comments. | |
Causes | Inside | ● Ancient areas 【5】for primal behaviors control laughing. ● “Higher function” regions can’t 【6】with laughing. |
【7】 | ● Situations of emotional warmth and in-groupness give 【8】to laughing. ●Laughter can be 【9】, which is another most important feature. | |
Conclusion | The origin of laugh is associated with both brain structures and 【10】factors. | |