12.Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile(無用的) to laugh in the face of pain and fear.
When Dan Rather interviewed comedian Bill Cosby just one week after his son,Ennis,was killed,Cosby said,"I think it is time for me to tell people that we have to laugh.You can turn painful situations around through laughter.If you can find humor in anything,you can survive it."
Call it a flashlight for dark times:laughter just seems to adjust attitude better than anything else.Inspirational speaker Steve Rizzo recalls a TV interview with an injured firefighter a few days after 9.11.The man had fallen more than 30stories in one of the towers and had broken a leg.Everyone was crying,and the reporter asked,"How is it that you've come out of this alive?"He looked at her and without missing a beat,said,"Look,lady,I'm from New York and I'm a firefighter; that'all you need to know."
"Everyone laughed and though the laughter was only a couple of seconds,"says Rizzo."Sometimes that's all you need to catch your second breath.Laughter gives you that couple
of seconds.You're sending a message to your brain,and the message is:If you can still laugh even a little among the pain,you are going to be OK."
Of course,there is a difference between laughing off a serious situation and laughing off the fear that results.The firefighter was doing the latter,states Rizzo,the author of Becoming a Humorous Being,and so should we."If there is anything we have learnt from 9.11,it's how precious life really is,"she says."We have to send a message that our spirit won't die.One important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh."
25.The writer uses the examples of the comedian and the firefighter to showD.
A.it is your attitude that decides whether you can survive the pain or not
B.laughter is the best way to cure psychological wounds
C.laughter can make people feel calm or relaxed
D.laughter is a good way to get rid of pain and fear
26.We can infer from the passage that Steve Rizzo isA.
A.a(chǎn) reporter B.a(chǎn) soldier C.a(chǎn) firefighter D.a(chǎn) doctor
27.From the passage,we can know that Americans areB.
A.really happy after 9.11 B.greatly hurt by 9.11
C.nearly surprised by 9.11 D.hardly united after 9.11.
分析 本文屬于說明文閱讀,作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了笑容的重要性,笑容可以讓你感到平靜和放松身體甚至可以治愈心理創(chuàng)傷,作者旨在通過這篇文章呼吁受過9.11創(chuàng)傷的人們重拾笑容,走出陰影.
解答 25.D.推理判斷題.根據(jù)文章第一段Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm orrelaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futileto laugh in the face of pain and fear.可以看出這是文章的主旨,下面的兩個例子都是圍繞著這個主旨展開的,所有推斷出A選項"笑能夠擺脫痛苦和恐懼"最符合題意;故選D.
26.A.細節(jié)推理題.根據(jù)文章states Rizzo,the author of Becoming a Humorous Being可以看出Steve Rizzo是一個作者,所有a reporter最符合他的身份;故選A.
27.B.主旨推測題.根據(jù)文章最后段"If there is anything we have learnt from 9.11,it's how precious life really is,"she says."We have to send a message that our spirit won't die.One important thing that unites us is our ability to laugh.""作者希望人們忘記9.11的陰影學會笑容,可以推測出美國人受到了9.11的嚴重的傷害;故選B.
點評 考察學生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.