Do you want to live a happier, less stressful life? Try laughing for no reason a
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The first Laughter Club was started in Mumbai, India, in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria. “ Young children laugh about 300 times a day. Adults laugh between 7 and 15 times a day,” says Dr.Kataria. “Everyone is naturally good at laughing---it’s the common language. We want people to feel happy with their lives.” There are now more than 500 Laughter Clubs in India and over 1300 in the world.
Many doctors are also interested in the effects of laughter on our health. According to a 5-year study at the UCLA School of Medicine in California, with laughing there is less stress in the body. Laughter improves our health against illness by about 40%.
So what happens at a Laughter Club? I went along to my nearest club in South London to find out. I was quite nervous at the beginning of the class. To be honest, I wasn’t interested in laughing with a group of strangers, and I was worried about looking silly. Our laughter teacher told us to clap our hands and say “ho ho ho ha, ha, ha” while looking at each other. However, our bodies can’t tell the difference between real laughter and unreal laughter, so they still produce the same healthy effects.
Surprisingly, it works! After ten minutes everybody in the room was laughing for real and some people just couldn’t stop! At the end of the class I was surprised by how relaxed and comfortable I felt. So if you’re under stress, then start laughing. You might be very pleased with the results.
小题1:The first Laughter Club was started in __________.
A. India B. America C. Britain
小题2:How many Laughter Clubs are there in the world today?
A. Over 1300. B. Over 500. C. Over 800.
小题3:How did the writer feel at the beginning of the class?
A. Surprised. B. Pleased. C. Nervous.
小题4:When did the people in the club begin to laugh for real?
A. After ten minutes. B. After ten hours. C. After ten seconds.
小题5:The article mainly tells us _____________.
A. young children laugh much more often than adults in a day
B. laughing is one of the best ways to stay healthy
C.real laughter and unreal laughter are both good for health
答案
小题1:A
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:B
解析
试题分析：短文大意：你想过快乐的、没有压力的生活吗？尝试没有理由的笑。许多医生都认为笑可能是保持健康的最好方式。
小题1:细节理解题。根据第二段首句The first Laughter Club was started in Mumbai, India, in 1995 by Dr. Madan Kataria.可知该选A。
小题2:细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句There are now more than 500 Laughter Clubs in India and over 1300 in the world.可知该选A。
小题3:细节理解题。根据第四段第二句I went along to my nearest club in South London to find out. I was quite nervous at the beginning of the class.可知该选C。
小题4:细节理解题。根据最后一段第二句After ten minutes everybody in the room was laughing for real and some people just couldn’t stop!可知该选A。
小题5:主旨大意题。本文作者旨在通过该文告诉读者笑是保持健康的最好方法，所以该选B。
举一反三
Pandas are actually called giant pandas. Many people also call them panda bears because they are mammals (哺乳类) classified from the bear family. Giant pandas originate in China. Pictures of both the dragon and the giant panda are often regarded as the symbols of China.
Giant pandas look different from other bears because they are white with black patches around their eyes, over their ears, and across their bodies. Although they look adorable and move slow, they can be as dangerous as any other bear when they are angry. Pandas mostly eat bamboo, but they may also eat other food like eggs, fish, oranges and bananas.
Many people think that giant pandas have few babies, and that is one of the reasons that there are not many of them left. But scientists say that a female panda may have about five or six cubs during her life. The female panda gives birth to one or two panda cubs, but she is only able to take care of only one of her cubs. As a result, one of her cubs dies soon after birth because of a lack of intense care.
The giant panda is an endangered species, and there are only about 2,000 giant pandas left in the world. People have been trying hard to protect giant pandas. It looks like their work is paying off because the number of giant pandas is increasing.
小题1:Why do some people call “pandas” panda bears?
| A．Because they look like bears. |
| B．Because they like to live with bears. |
| C．Because they are often regarded as bears. |
| D．Because they are mammals classified from the bear family. |
| A．Bamboo. | B．Fish. | C．Bananas. | D．Oranges. |
| A．Three. | B．Four or five. | C．Five or six. | D．More than seven. |
| A．To result in success. | B． To pay money on it. |
| C．To stop working. | D． To make it work. |
Many Chinese cities now face the same sort of problem with air pollution that London faced 40 or 50 years ago. However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to solve. One reason is that more of the pollution comes from the factories, rather than from coal burnt in people’s houses. If these factories were closed, this would harm the economy and lots of people would lose their jobs. Another reason is that changing from coal to cleaner fuel (燃料), like gas, is quite expensive.
However, the air in many Chinese cities is becoming cleaner and cleaner, as the government and people pay more and more attention to cutting down pollution. As a result, there are fewer “pea-soupers” in Beijing than there used to be.
小题1:What was the main reason for air pollution in London?
| A．There was too much smoke in the sky. |
| B．There were too many factories in the city. |
| C．People burnt too much coal in the houses. |
| D．The city was too big for the cleaners to clean. |
| A．There was not so much fog in the winter later. |
| B．A law was made to keep people from burning coal in their houses. |
| C．Many factories in the city were closed. |
| D．People paid more attention to cleaning their city. |
| A．Smog. | B．Smoke. | C．Gas. | D．Coal. |
| A．one | B．two | C．three | D．four |
| A．Air pollution is serious in Beijing and Chongqing. |
| B．Using coal is much more expensive than using gas. |
| C．Factories made much more pollution in China. |
| D．The reasons of air pollution in London and Beijing are different. |
Most of our crash goes to places called landfills. A LANDFILL is a low area of land that is filled with garbage（垃圾）.Most modern landfills are lined with a cover of plastic to keep dangerous liquids（液体）from polluting earth and ground water supply. The problem is that more than half of the states in this country are running out of places to landfill their garbage. Because of the unhealthy materials, landfills do not make good neighbors，and people don’t want to live near them. Many landfills are set in poor neighborhoods.
The Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island, New York, was the largest garbage landfill in the world. For years, people who live nearby complained about air and water pollution caused by the enormous pile of trash. They say that the smoke have made people sick. The landfill closed in
April 2001.Now can a harmful waste—material that can pollute air, land, and water –be disposed of in a safe way.
Another way to get rid of trash is to burn it. Trash is burned in an incinerator._ Because incinerators in operation can get rid of almost all of the trash, some communities would rather use incinerators than landfills. There is a problem, though. Leftover ash and smoke from burning trash may have dangerous chemicals, and even make it hard for some people to breathe. They can harm plants, animals, and people.
You can help reduce（减少）waste by reusing bottles, batteries, and paper. You can also recycle newspaper, glass, and plastics t to provide materials for making other products.
From recycled materials, many things are made. For example, from recycled paper we can get newspapers, boxes and so on. From recycled plastic we can get soda bottles, tables, and backpacks.
小题1:Why don’t landfills make good neighbors?
| A．Because there are unhealthy materials in them. |
| B．Because people prefer to live in the city center. |
| C．Because landfills are not big enough for trash. |
| D．Because most states are running out of places. |
| A．An area to collect trash. | B．A machine to burn trash |
| C．A method that is used to burn trash. | D．A station that is run by selling trash. |
| A．How Is Trash Burned? | B．What Can Be Reused. |
| C．Why Is Waste Dangerous? | D．Where Does Garbage Go? |
Ants may be very tinny, but they’re serious eaters! Ants love a picnic and they have their “ant-picnics”.
Favorite Foods
Want to find out what the ants like to eat? Place different foods on the edge of an upside-down plate. You can use butter, honey or seeds. Put this feeding station in the places where there are lots of ants. Wait three minutes and count the number of ants feeding on each food. Count them every three minutes. Watch and find out!
Do ants prefer sweet foods or less sweet ones? Here’s test: Give ants a choice between full-strength honey and a honey-water mixture. Offer a few drops of each choice side-by-side. Then count the number of ants you see near each site every three minutes.
How Far Will They Go?
Want to see how far ants travel to collect food? First find an ant nest(巢) by following some ants when they carry food home. Now you know how far the ants traveled to your food station. Next, move the food station about one foot (30cm) farther. Keep moving it until the ants no longer show up.
Spreading the News
Once ants find food they like, usually they try to get their nestmates to help. To find out how long it takes an ant to tell others there’s food nearby, offer their favorite food and watch. After the first ant finds it, begin counting the ants at the food station every minute. Also, watch their behavior, when the first ant heads home, what does it do when it gets near other nestmates?
小题1:Do ants love a picnic?
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小题2:Where can we put the feeding station to find out ants’ favorite food?
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小题3:How can we find an ant nest?
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小题4:What do ants usually do once they find food they like?
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小题5:What is the passage mainly about?
____________________________________________________
Now think for a minute SEASICK. If you change the word HOME in the word “homesick” to the word SEA, does the way above of giving the definition SEASICK? Does seasick mean SICK FOR SEA? No, it doesn’t. It means something quite . Seasick means SICK BY THE MOVEMENT(航行) ON THE SEA. When you are , the only place you want to be is at home. When you are seasick, you want to be is at sea.
Have you ever heard of a person being heartsick? Heartsick doesn’t mean that something is wrong with a person’s . People are heartsick when they are deep inside as if (好像) their hearts are broken.
And we also have other compound words, such as handshake and . Perhaps you may write definitions for them. It must be helpful to know something like this in your English study.
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