Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile 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 30 stories 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.”  
小題1:The writer uses the examples of the comedian and the firefighter to show             .
A．laughter is a good way to get rid of pain and fear
B．laughter is the best way to cure psychological wounds
C．it is your attitude that decides whether you can survive the pain or not
D．laughing off a serious situation is different from laughing off the fear that results
小題2:We can infer from the passage that Steve Rizzo is             .
A．a(chǎn) reporterB．a(chǎn) soldierC．a(chǎn) firefighterD．a(chǎn) doctor
小題3:The underlined word futile in the first paragraph means          .
A．hopelessB．useless
C．carelessD．worthless
小題4:From the passage, we can know that Americans are                .
A．really inspired after 9.11B．hardly united after 9.11
C．nearly surprised by 9.11D．greatly hurt by 9.11

小題1:A
小題2:A
小題3:B
小題4:D

小題1:邏輯推斷題。根據(jù)文章第一段Studies show that laughter is something that makes you feel calm or relaxed for both physical and psychological wounds though it may seem futile to 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。所以選A。
小題2: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。所以選A。
小題3:詞匯推測題。從文章第一段though it may seem futile to laugh in the face of pain and fear，再結合上下文可知，笑能夠給生理和心理以放松，雖然有時候看起來在面對痛苦和恐懼可能會失去作用。可知道futile解釋為useless符合題意。所以選B。
小題4:主旨推測題。根據(jù)文章最后段可以推測出美國人受到了9.11的嚴重的傷害。所以應該選D。
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