首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we【C1】______ to pleasurable experiences? What is
Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we【C1】______ to pleasurable experiences? What is
admin
2012-07-22
52
问题
Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we【C1】______ to pleasurable experiences? What is the history of this "happy convulsion" as someone once【C2】______ it. and just what is its function?
We are not short【C3】______ theories to explain the mystery, for centuries, biologists, psychologists, and medical men have【C4】______ a definitive explanation of laughter. One writer theoried that its function is to intimidate others or to gain stature【C5】______ them by humiliating them. Another took the opposite view that we laugh in order not to cry. A psychologist offered the explanation that laughter functions as a remedy【C6】______ painful experiences, and that it serves to defend a person【C7】______ what the psychologist termed "the many minor pains【C8】______ which man is exposed", that the seventeenth century, a writer set【C9】______ the theory that we laugh when we compare ourselves with others and’ find ourselves superior; in effect, we laugh at the infirmities of others.
【C10】______ every theory has been concerned with either the structure or the function of laughter,【C11】______ relatively few have been devoted【C12】______ the question. of its origin. I propose to offer a theory which, so far as I am 【C13】______ , has not previously been set forth: that only those animals capable of speech are capable of laughter, and that therefore man, being the only animal that【C14】______ , is the only animal that laughs.
Those of us who have observed Chimpanzees closely feel quite confident that the chimpanzee occasionally【C15】______ behavior that looks very much like a primitive precursor of human laughter. This behavior, however, has been observed only in a human【C16】______ ; whether or not it occurs under natural【C17】______ is dubious; but the【C18】______ fact that under any condition an ape is capable of such behavior is【C19】______ more than passing【C20】______ for does it not indicate that early man had the rudiments of laughter?
【C10】
选项
A、No
B、Not
C、Virtually
D、Whether
答案
C
解析
此题考查语篇理解。Virtually意为“事实上”,因为根据上文提到的各种理论,都是与笑的作用和功能有关,A项和B项与原意不符。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/DMmK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Accordingtothenews,icefromGreenlandgivesinformationabout
WhichofthefollowingissuesisNOTincludedinGeorgeW.Bush’sspeech?
Footballplayingwillcontinuetobe______itistoday--themostpopulargameforboysinschools.
Whatdothespeakersmainlydiscuss?
Thiswatchis______toalltheotherwatchesonthemarket.
Thefifthgenerationcomputers,withartificialintelligence,______andperfectednow.
Thepatient’sintelligencehasbeen______byabraininjury.
Whatsitcomdoesthemanlikebest?
Whatsitcomdoesthemanlikebest?
______forthefactthatshebrokeherleg,shemighthavepassedtheexam.(2002年考试真题)
随机试题
比较内脏运动神经与躯体运动神经的特点。
律师接受刑事案件被告人及其亲属的委托,在法庭上进行的辩论活动是指_______。
四时感冒,恶寒发热不甚而无汗之表证,宜选用
测定左室射血分数最准确的方法是
甲与乙订立了一份合同,约定甲供给乙货物200件,总价6万元,但合同未规定货物的质量标准和等级,也未封存样品。甲如期发货,乙验收后支付了货款。后乙因有20件货物未能销出,便以产品质量不合格为由,向法院起诉,其诉讼代理人在审理过程中又主张合同无效。本案中,下列
下列是法庭辩论的陈述:①互相辩论;②第三人及其诉讼代理人答辩;③原告及其诉讼代理人发言;④被告及其诉讼代理人答辩。正确的排列顺序应是( )。
A注册会计师负责对X公司2014年度财务报表实施审计。X公司主营高档耐用消费品Y产品的生产与销售。其中,大约60%的产品销往欧洲,其余产品在国内市场销售。资料一:A注册会计师在审计工作底稿中记载了所了解的X公司及其环境。其中,与存货相关的部分内
拟态,是指某些生物在进化过程中具有与另一种生物或周围自然界物体的相似的形态.这种相似性很高,几乎难以分辨,可以保护某一物种或两个物种。根据上述定义,下列选项属于拟态的是:
有人认为只要我们知道在宇宙开始时粒子的初始状态,那么以后世界的任何时间的状态都能精确地推理出来,这种观点属于( )
Researchersknowtherearemanydrugsthatcanalterourbodilyprocessesinsuchaway【C1】______affectouremotionalexperience
最新回复
(
0
)