There is an English saying: “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into (調(diào)查) laughter and the effects it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health. Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach, and even the feet. If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial (有益的).
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated (忍受) the pain for the longest time was the groups which listened to a funny program. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which reduce both stress (緊張；壓力) and pain.
As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics (診所), in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh. They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
小題1:The underlined phrase “took the saying seriously” in the first paragraph probably means “________”.
A．treat the saying as importantB．treat the saying as interesting
C．treat the saying as dangerousD．treat the saying as funny
小題2:The main idea of the passage is _______.
A．laughter and physical exercises have similar effects on the human body
B．smile can produce the same effects as laughter
C．pain can be reduced by laughter
D．laughter is the best medicine
小題3:Doctors hold laughter clinics _______.
A．to give better condition to their patients
B．in order to improve patients’ health
C．to make patients smile
D．to prove smile and laughter have the same effect

小題1:A
小題2:D
小題3:B

試題分析：本文是篇說明文，這篇文章通過舉例說明笑是治療疾病最好的藥。
小題1:這句話的意思是，直到現(xiàn)在，很少有人認真對待這一說法，故選A。
小題2:根據(jù)There is an English saying: “Laughter is the best medicine.”以及全文內(nèi)容.故選D。
小題3:根據(jù)As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics (診所), in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh.故選B。
點評：這篇文章非常簡單，先看問題，再帶著問題仔細閱讀短文，理解了全文內(nèi)容，很容易選出正確答案。閱讀注意事項：1、關注連詞，分析文章邏輯結(jié)構(gòu)。2、聚焦代詞，明辨指代關系。3、抓住關鍵詞語，利用平行結(jié)構(gòu)、上下文（包括定義、釋義、舉例、對比、標點）進行判斷與推理。4、了解一些構(gòu)詞法，從詞根的特殊含義入手。
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