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Day 12——Work and life 工作與生活（聽力部分）

Spot dictation

經(jīng)典題目操練：(聽力教程P5)

Doctors are starting to believe that laughter not only improves your state of mind, but actually affects your entire physical wellbeing. Britain’s first laughter therapist, Robert Holden says: “Instinctively we know that laughing helps us feel healthy and alive. _________________ (1) we laugh we feel better and more content.”

A French newspaper found that in _____________ (2) the French laughed on average for nineteen minutes per day. By 1980 this had fallen to _________________ (3). Eight percent of the people questioned said that they would like to _______________ (4). Other research suggests that children laugh on average about ________________ (5) times a day, but by the time they reach adulthood this has been reduced to about ____________ (6). Somewhere in the process of growing up we lose an astonishing _____________ (7) laughs a day.

William Fry, a psychiatrist from California, studied the _____________ (8) on the body. He got patients to watch funny films, and monitored their _______________ (9) , heart rate and muscle tone. He found that laughter has a similar effect to _______________ (10). It speed up the heart rate, _____________ (11) blood pressure and quickens breathing. It also makes our ___________ （12）muscles work. Fry thinks laughter is a type of ______________ (13) on the spot.

Laughter can even provide a kind of _____________(14).  Fry had proved that laughter produces endorphins – chemicals in the body that relieve pain. Researchers divided _________________ (15) university students into four groups. The first group listened to a funny cassette for __________________ (16). The other three groups listened to either an informative tape, or a cassette _______________ (17) them, or no tape at all. Researchers found that if they produce pain in the students, those who had listened to the humorous tape could _______________（18）for much longer. Some doctors are convinced that _________________ (19) should be a part of every medical consultation, as there is evidence to suggest that laughter stimulates the _______________ (20).

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答 案

Spot dictation:

1.       Each time

2.       1930

3.       six minutes

4.       laugh more

5.       400 times

6.       fifteen times

7.       385

8.       effects of laughter

9.       blood pressure

10.   physical exercises

11.   increases

12.   facial and stomach

13.   jogging

14.   pain relief

15.   forty

16.   twenty minutes

17.   intended to relax

18.   tolerate the discomfort

19.   humor

20.   immune system