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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 despair. She’s just taking her time to understand it. But if the punchline（妙语）does eventually make her laugh it will be 42 the 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 and have less expectation that they will be funny.
When a joke does hit the right 44 , 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 to a joke. The women tended to use 46 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 language areas of the brain.”
The 48 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 longer than the men to react to jokes that were funny — but were quicker to spot the “truth”.
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| One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is 1 Once I heard a bald man said, “whenever I enter a room 2 I see is hair.” Once you’ve 3 what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will 4 make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different 5 , or forget about it and 6 the tiles in your life that are not missing. We all know people who have a relatively 7 life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but 8 remain happy. The first 9 is gratitude. All happy people are 10 . Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to 11 , but it’s truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy. The second secret is 12 that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious 13 are those pursuit (追求) that give our lives purpose - anything 14 studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are 15 to experience. Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our 16 has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We 17 a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it should 18 this truth: if you choose to find the 19 in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is 20 your decision to make. | ||||
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| When it comes to eating smart for your heart, thinking about short-term fixes and simplify your life with a straightforward approach that will serve you well for years to come. Smart eating goes beyond analyzing every bite of food you lift 1 your mouth. "In the past we used to believe that 2 amounts of individual nutrients (营养物) were the 3 to good health," says Linda Van Horn, chair of the American Heart Association's Nutrition Committee. "But now we have a 4 understanding of healthy eating and the kinds of food necessary to 5 not only heart disease but disease 6 general," she adds. Scientists now 7 on the broader picture of the balance of food eaten 8 several days or a week 9 than on the number of milligrams (毫克) of this or that 10 at each meal. Fruits, vegetables and whole grains, for example, provide nutrients and plant-based compounds 11 for good health. "The more we learn, the more 12 we are by the wealth of essential substances they 13 ," Van Horn continues, "and how they 14 with each other to keep us healthy." You'll automatically be 15 the right heart-healthy track if vegetables, fruits and whole grains make 16 three quarters of the food on your dinner plate. 17 in the remaining one quarter with lean meat or chicken, fish or eggs. The foods you choose to eat as well as those you choose to 18 clearly contribute to your well-being. Without a 19 each of the small decisions you make in this realm can make a big 20 on your health in the years to come. | |||
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