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
32
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?
【C16】
选项
A、way
B、context
C、situations
D、surroundings
答案
B
解析
此题考查词义辨析。context意为“背景、环境”,强调事实等发生的周围情况,侧重指人、事、物存在于其中的各种有关情况。C项的situations也有“环境”之意,但侧重“地理之环境”。而此处是指人文环境,故选context。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TMmK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Whatistheprobablerelationshipbetweenthemanandthewoman?
WhydidTomgotoliveinthecountry?
Whatarethetwospeakerstalkingabout?
Whatdothespeakersmainlydiscuss?
AlthoughIaminperfecthealth,andinpossessionofavalidclass-oneCaliforniadrivinglicense,Iamrunning【C1】______prob
Theystoodgazingatthehappy______ofchildrenplayinginthepark.
Thediscoveryofplanetsarounddistantstarshasbecomelikespace-shuttlelaunches—newsworthybutjustbarely.Withsome50
Thepatient’sintelligencehasbeen______byabraininjury.
Whereisthisconversationprobablytakingplace?
随机试题
自动埋弧焊设备的维护和保养事项是怎样的?
急性早幼粒细胞白血病的患者,口服维A酸治疗,无明显诱因出现发热,呼吸困难,体重增加,皮肤水肿,急性肾功能不全,多考虑弥散性血管内凝血(DIC)。
A.1mSvB.5mSvC.15mSvD.50mSvE.100mSv根据《电力辐射防护和辐射源安全基本标准》,公众人员一年中其他任何器官或组织所受当量剂量不应超过
A、Perthes试验B、Trendelenburg试验C、Pratt试验D、直腿抬高试验E、杜加试验测定深静脉是否通畅的试验是
康某,女,36岁。因精神刺激,夜间失眠多梦,入睡困难,入睡后易惊醒,心烦不安,心悸,头晕健忘,偶有耳鸣,腰酸,口干咽燥,舌质红,脉细数。选用的治疗方法是
我国公民张先生为国内某企业高级技术人员,2008年3月转让2006年购买的三居室精装修房屋一套,售价230万元,转让过程中支付的相关税费13.8万元。该套房屋的购进价为100万元,购房过程中支付的相关税费为3万元。所有税费支出均取得合法凭证。要求:计算转让
教师与教育理论工作者或其他成员共同去研究本校、本班教育教学中的实际情况,解决日常教育教学中出现的问题,从而不断改进教育教学工作。这种教学反思方法是()。
地理:自然地理:经济地理
已知八位机器码10111010(最高位为符号位),当它是原码时表示的十进制数是(2);当它是补码时表示的十进制数是(3);当它是反码时表示的十进制数是(4)。
一般讲的信息资源管理是包括()等在内的信息资源的管理。
最新回复
(
0
)