2011年考研英语完型填空答案与解密
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针对2011年考研英语完型填空题的出处和答案,贾洪伟老师给予详细解密。2011年考研完型填空题出自Scientific
American的Mind &Brain(大脑与思维专栏)，是由Steve Ayan所写的How Humor Makes
You Friendlier, Sexier: Seeing the bright side of life may
strengthen the psyche, ease pain and tighten social
bonds（《幽默使人更友好、更性感》）发表于
2009年3月25号（参见http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=laughing-matters）。该题系上文的Amusing
Exercises部分，现引录如下，以供参考。
Amusing Exercise
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle viewed laughter as “a
bodily exercise precious to health.” But (1)despite
some claims to the contrary, chuckling probably has little
influence on physical fitness. Laughter does (2)
produce short-term changes in cardiovascular function and
respiration, (3) boosting heart rate, respiratory
rate and depth, as well as oxygen consumption. But because hard
laughter is difficult to (4 )sustain, a good guffaw
is unlikely to have (5) measurable
cardiovascular
benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.
(6)In fact, instead of straining muscles to
build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the
(7) opposite. Studies dating back to the 1930s
indicate that laughter (8) relaxes muscles,
decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the guffaw
subsides.
Such physical relaxation might conceivably help (9)
moderate the effects of psychological stress. After all,
the act of laughing probably does produce other types of (10)
physical feedback that improve an individual’s emotional
state. (11) According to one classical theory of
emotion, our feelings are partially rooted (12)
in physical reactions. American psychologist William
James and Danish physiologist Carl Lange argued at the end of the
19th century that humans do not cry (13) because they
are sad but that they become sad when the tears begin to
flow.
Although sadness also (14) precedes tears,
evidence suggests that emotions can flow (15) from
muscular responses. In an experiment published in 1988, social
psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of Würzburg in Germany
and his colleagues asked volunteers to (16) hold a
pen either with their teeth—thereby creating an artificial smile—or
with their lips, which would produce a (17)
disappointed expression. Those forced to exercise their
smiling muscles (18)reacted more exuberantly to funny
cartoons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown,
(19) suggesting that expressions may influence
emotions rather than just the other way around. (20)
Similarly, the physical act of laughter could improve
mood.
正确答案为：
CDBBA, BADCA, BCDCB, DADAC
不论从题材还是问题难度，2011年完型填空题都比2010年简单许多，适合出题顺序，有益于考生热身练习。从考察的角度看，考察点较为合理，但似乎语篇连接词所占比例过大。此外，词汇难度似乎有所超出2010年的难度，但对考生答题不构成破坏性威胁。
