Question

Laugh and the world laughs with you. Even better, you might live longer, an American researcher reports.

“Adults who have ___1.___ sense of humor live longer than those who don’t find life funny, and the survival edge is ___2.__ (particular) large for people ___3.___ cancer,” says Richard Smith of the Columbia University of Science and Technology.

He ___4.___ (present) his study of about 54,000 Americans, ___5.___ he had followed for seven years, at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting last Monday.

At the start, patients filled out questionnaires on how easily they found humor in real-life situations __6.___ how important a ___7.___ (humor) idea was.

The study showed next the greater role humor played in their lives, the greater their chances were in ___8.___（survive）the seven years. Adults scoring in the top one-quarter for humor appreciation were 35% more likely to be alive ___9.__ those in the bottom quarter. In a smaller group of 2,015 people who had a cancer diagnosis(诊断) at the start, the study found ___10.__ important that a great sense of humor cut the chances of dying by about 70%.

Answer

1.a

2.particularly

3.with/having

4.presented

5.who/whom

6.and

7.humorous

8.surviving

9.than

10. it

【解析】

试题分析：

1.a sense of humor是“幽默感”，句意：有幽默感的男子比没有幽默感的男子更长寿。

2.修饰形容词large用副词：particularly

3.有癌症的人：people with/having cancer，用介词短语或现在分词做定语。句意：生存的机会尤其比有癌症的人大。

4.从后面的句子：he had followed for seven years,可知是用过去时：presented，句意：他提交了54,000美国人的一项调查。

5.考查定语从句：先行词是Americans ，用who/whom引导定语从句，这些人他跟踪了7年。

6.连接两个宾语从句用and，句意：开始，病人填写问卷关于在日常生活中发现幽默是怎么容易，还有幽默的想法是多么重要。

7.修饰名词idea用形容词humorous

8.介词in后面接动名词surviving，句意：研究表明幽默在人们生活中作用越大，他们在7年中幸存的机会就越大。

9.形容词用了比较级more likely和 than连用，句意：得分在前四分之一的人比后四分之一的人幸存的机会大。

10.考查it做形式宾语：句型是：sb find it+adj+that从句。句意：研究发现幽默在减少死亡的机会这方面是很重要的。

考点：考查语法填空