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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

The teacher stood before his class and was going to hand out the final exam papers. “I know how ______ you have all worked to prepare for this test,” he said. “And because I know you can do it well, I am willing to offer a B to anyone who would ______ not to take the test.

Many students jumped up to _____the teacher and left the classroom. The teacher looked at the _______ students and said, “Does anyone else want to get a B? This is your last _______.” Two more students decided to go.

Seven students remained(留下,余下). The teacher then handed out the _______. There were only three sentences typed on the paper: Congratulations! You have just ______ an A in this class. Keep believing in yourself.

I never had a teacher like that, but I think it is a test _______ any teacher could and should give. Students who are not ______ in what they have learned are B students at best(充其量).

The same is ______ in real life. The A students are those who believe in what they are doing because they have ______ both successes and failures. They have learned life’s lessons, either from normal education ______ from events in their lives, and have become ______ people.

Scientists say that by the age of eight, 80% of what we believe about ourselves has already been formed. You are a big kid now, and you _____ that you have some limits (限制). However, there is _____ you can’t do or learn or be. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest said, “It’s not the mountain we conquer(克服) but ourselves.

1.A.luckily B.terribly C.quietly D.hard

2.A.dislike B.help C.prefer D.start

3.A.thank B.praise C.fight D.criticize

4.A.following B.relaxing C.worrying D.remaining

5.A.chance B.trouble C.test D.idea

6.A.results B.presents C.papers D.essays

7.A.given B.sent C.discovered D.received

8.A.where B.that C.what D.when

9.A.confident B.necessary C.mysterious D.convenient

10.A.unusual B.impossible C.true D.special

11.A.broken off B.dreamed of C.learned from D.cared about

12.A.and B.or C.but D.so

13.A.ruder B.cuter C.worse D.better

14.A.decide B.forget C.realize D.imagine

15.A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing

Before I studied psychology ( 心 理 学 ), I used to think that funny things make people laugh. While I was right about that, I discovered that there are lots of other psychological factors ( 因 素 ) that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh — and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be.If your joke supports the opinions of a person, he will laugh more.

I was attending a talk show in Egypt, and when the man started to make fun of the way pedestrians (行人) cross the streets, everyone laughed their hearts out. The main reason those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed the streets carelessly. The joke wasn’t only funny, it also made people feel that they were right about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got.

The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more the person will like it. For example, if you are jealous (嫉妒) of a friend, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then most probably you will laugh at it louder than if you weren’t jealous of him.

In short, we don’t laugh only when we hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage making fun of anyone or belittling (贬低) someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke supports a person’s emotions in any possible way, he will certainly like it a lot. You can do this in a better way by supporting their opinions without making fun of anyone in a funny way to make them laugh.

1.Before studying psychology, the writer thought .

A.only good jokes made people laugh B.many factors led to people laughing

C.funny things could make people laugh D.laughing could make people healthy

2.Why did people laugh loud at the pedestrians in paragraph 2?

A.Because they played a joke on the pedestrians.

B.Because the pedestrians behaved in a funny way.

C.Because they could feel the pedestrians’ happiness.

D.Because their emotions were supported by the show.

3.What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To introduce a talk show the writer attended.

B.To draw people’s attention to psychology learning.

C.To question about the psychological factors that make people laugh.

D.To stress people can make others laugh by supporting their opinions.

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