Question

用下面方框中單詞的適當(dāng)形式填入短文空格內(nèi)，使短文意思正確、通順(每詞限用一次)。

research    common     they      fun        before       compare sudden      social     same      find      affect      exact

Worried That People Are Laughing at You?
Imagine this situation. You pass a group of people. The people are talking to each other. You cannot hear what they are saying. But    1  they start laughing. What would you think? Would you think they were laughing at something   2   that one of them said? Or, to be honest with yourself, would you think they were laughing at you? Yes, you.
Being laughed at is a  3 fear. But a major study published(公布)in 2009 found that this fear is not the   4   around the world, It differs from culture to culture.
Some people in the study said they felt unsure of   5   in social situations and hid their feelings of insecurity (不安全). Others said they avoided (回避) social situations where they had been laughed at   6  .
Shy people often avoid situations that would make them get into close contact (接觸) with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make other people laugh at them, It can be truly sad for those who live with the fear of laughter. It can   7   how they lead their lives.
In the study, a team from the University of Zurich led more than ninety   8  from around the world. They wanted to understand the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at. Another purpose of the study was   9  the levels of fear of being laughed at in different cultures. The scientists surveyed more than twenty-two thousand people in forty-two different languages. The   10  would appear in Scientific Humor.

Answer 1

小題1:suddenly
小題2:funny
小題3:common
小題4:same
小題5:themselves
小題6:before
小題7:affect
小題8:researchers
小題9:to compare
小題10:findings

短文屬于說明文。短文分析了“害怕被嘲笑”的恐怕心理，到底是因?yàn)槠胀ǖ男邼�還是真的害怕被嘲笑，研究人員在做調(diào)查研究。
小題1:意思是：在說話時(shí)，突然開始大笑。此處需要一個(gè)副詞。
小題2:“可笑的事”，形容詞后置，修飾不定代詞something。
小題3:用于a 和名詞之間，使用形容詞；common“普通的，平常的”。
小題4:the same“一樣的”，與后句的“differs from…”相對應(yīng)。
小題5:feel sure of oneself “有自信”，這里使用了sure的否定形式；主語是Shy people，因此使用they的反身代詞themselves。
小題6:根據(jù)“they had been laughed at”可知用了過去完成時(shí)，是比說話時(shí)更早的事情，用before泛指以前。
小題7:情態(tài)動(dòng)詞can后，使用動(dòng)詞原形。
小題8:根據(jù)上下文可知這里指研究人員，用復(fù)數(shù)形式。
小題9:通過上一句“the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at.”可知，目的就是為了做比較。此處用動(dòng)詞不定式短語做表語。
小題10:這里指調(diào)查、研究的結(jié)果，用復(fù)數(shù)形式。