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Ôn thi vào 10

Câu hỏi:

Why People Laugh

Sunday May 4th will be World Laughter Day. Dr Madan Kataria, who introduced this annual event, says we need more laughter in our lives to combat the global rise of stress and loneliness. But surely that strange sound that we make periodically can't be the (1)_____  to such problems.

If an alien were to land on our planet and (2)_____  a stroll among a crowd of earthlings, it would hear a lot of 'ha-ha’ noises. It might wonder what (3)_____  this strange habit served. If we ask ourselves what (4)_____  a good laugh, the obvious answer is that it is a response to something funny. But one scientist, Robert Provine, says humour has surprisingly little to (5)_____  with that. Instead, it lies at the (6)______  of such issues as the perception of self and the evolution of language and social behaviour.

Provine realised that you cannot capture (7)_____  laughter in the lab because as soon as you (8)_____  it under scrutiny, it vanishes. So, instead, he gathered data by hanging around groups of people, noting when they laughed.

He collected 1,200 laugh episodes - an episode being (9)______  as the comment immediately preceding the laughter and the laughter itself. His analysis of this data (10)_____  some important facts about laughter. "It's a message we send to other people- it (11)_____  disappears when we're by ourselves,'' he says. "And it's not a choice. Ask someone to laugh and they'll either try to (12)_____  a laugh or say they can't do it on command.“

A way  B answer  C end  D response 

A make  B get  C walk  D take

 3 

A reason  B purpose  C idea  D meaning 

A results  B leads  C prompts  D concludes 

A go  B bring  C do  D set 

A root  B stem  C head  D back

A complete  B authentic  C contemporary  D current

A place  B lay  C stand  D keep

A defended  B decided  C defined  D depicted 

10 

A revealed  B investigated  C displayed  D declared 

11 

A absolutely  B constantly  C undoubtedly  D virtually

12 

A offer  B pretend  C fake  D imagine