Question

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Even better, you might live longer, an American researcher reports.

“Adults who have ___1.___ sense of humor live longer than those who don’t find life funny, and the survival edge is ___2.__ (particular) large for people ___3.___ cancer,” says Richard Smith of the Columbia University of Science and Technology.

He ___4.___ (present) his study of about 54,000 Americans, ___5.___ he had followed for seven years, at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting last Monday.

At the start, patients filled out questionnaires on how easily they found humor in real-life situations __6.___ how important a ___7.___ (humor) idea was.

The study showed next the greater role humor played in their lives, the greater their chances were in ___8.___（survive）the seven years. Adults scoring in the top one-quarter for humor appreciation were 35% more likely to be alive ___9.__ those in the bottom quarter. In a smaller group of 2,015 people who had a cancer diagnosis(診斷) at the start, the study found ___10.__ important that a great sense of humor cut the chances of dying by about 70%.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.a

2.particularly

3.with/having

4.presented

5.who/whom

6.and

7.humorous

8.surviving

9.than

10. it

【解析】

試題分析：

1.a sense of humor是“幽默感”，句意：有幽默感的男子比沒(méi)有幽默感的男子更長(zhǎng)壽。

2.修飾形容詞large用副詞：particularly

3.有癌癥的人：people with/having cancer，用介詞短語(yǔ)或現(xiàn)在分詞做定語(yǔ)。句意：生存的機(jī)會(huì)尤其比有癌癥的人大。

4.從后面的句子：he had followed for seven years,可知是用過(guò)去時(shí)：presented，句意：他提交了54,000美國(guó)人的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查。

5.考查定語(yǔ)從句：先行詞是Americans ，用who/whom引導(dǎo)定語(yǔ)從句，這些人他跟蹤了7年。

6.連接兩個(gè)賓語(yǔ)從句用and，句意：開始，病人填寫問(wèn)卷關(guān)于在日常生活中發(fā)現(xiàn)幽默是怎么容易，還有幽默的想法是多么重要。

7.修飾名詞idea用形容詞humorous

8.介詞in后面接動(dòng)名詞surviving，句意：研究表明幽默在人們生活中作用越大，他們?cè)?年中幸存的機(jī)會(huì)就越大。

9.形容詞用了比較級(jí)more likely和 than連用，句意：得分在前四分之一的人比后四分之一的人幸存的機(jī)會(huì)大。

10.考查it做形式賓語(yǔ)：句型是：sb find it+adj+that從句。句意：研究發(fā)現(xiàn)幽默在減少死亡的機(jī)會(huì)這方面是很重要的。

考點(diǎn)：考查語(yǔ)法填空

點(diǎn)評(píng)：先閱讀短文，了解大意，再按照句子結(jié)構(gòu)的語(yǔ)法性和上下文連貫的要求，填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~或使用括號(hào)中詞語(yǔ)的正確形式填空，注意一些固定短語(yǔ)，和時(shí)態(tài)變化。