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4．A．involve     B．a(chǎn)nalysis         C．immediately     D．certain     E．worth
F．remarks     G．upset         H．slightly         I．respond     J．note

Why does a woman have the last （and longest） laugh？The answer is that women enjoy a joke more once they get it．If you tell a woman a joke and get a blank look，don't（41）Cdespair．She's just taking her time to understand it．But if the punchline（妙語(yǔ)）does eventually make her laugh it will be（42）Ethe wait．
Scientists have found that while women are slower than men at getting jokes，they enjoy them more when they truly understand．Research shows that women use their brain more than men to process witty（43）Fand have less expectation that they will be funny．
When a joke does hit the right（44）J，however，women derive more pleasure from it．Scientists asked ten men and ten women to look at dozens of black and white cartoons and rate them on a"funniness scale"．During the process they underwent sophisticated scans that mapped which parts of their brain were lighting up and timed how long it took them to（45）I to a joke．The women tended to use（46）D parts of their brain．Professor Allan Reiss said："We found greater activity in the parts of their brain in women，showing women are processing stimuli that（47）Alanguage areas of the brain．"
The（48）B of a"feelgood"brain region also revealed that men and women have different attitudes to humour．Experts said："Women appeared to have less expectation of a reward．So they were more pleased about it．"The funnier the cartoon，the more the women's parts of their brain lit up．This was not the case for men．The women took（49）H longer than the men to react to jokes that were funny-but were quicker to spot the"truth"．

Answer 1

分析 文章講述了女性在對(duì)笑話的反應(yīng)上所需時(shí)間比男性要多一點(diǎn)，并通過(guò)一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)來(lái)驗(yàn)證結(jié)果．

解答 CEFJIDABH
41．C 考查副詞．根據(jù)后句She's just taking her time to understand it可知，她只是在花時(shí)間理解，所以別立即失望．
42．E 考查形容詞．此處是一個(gè)固定短語(yǔ)，be worth+名詞，值得…
43．F 考查名詞．根據(jù)句意可知，女性比男性更多使用大腦處理一些詼諧的評(píng)論，故選remarks．
44．J考查名詞．hit the note是固定搭配，意思是合適宜，句意為當(dāng)一個(gè)笑話的確和適宜的時(shí)候．
45．I 考查動(dòng)詞．此處考查固定短語(yǔ)，respond to…對(duì)…做出反應(yīng)．
46．D 考查形容詞．根據(jù)句意可知，女性趨向使用大腦中的某個(gè)部分，certain是形容詞，某個(gè)的意思．
47．A 考查動(dòng)詞．研究表明女性大腦中某些部分的大部分活動(dòng)涉及語(yǔ)言區(qū)域，故involve是涉及符合語(yǔ)境．
48．B 考查名詞．a(chǎn)nalysis 名詞，分析．結(jié)合上句可知研究人員是在分析所得到的結(jié)果．
49．H 考查副詞．最后一句總結(jié)全文的觀點(diǎn)，即女性在對(duì)笑話的反應(yīng)上時(shí)間比男性稍微多花一點(diǎn)，slightly   輕微地．

點(diǎn)評(píng) 選詞填空是通過(guò)語(yǔ)篇在語(yǔ)境中考查語(yǔ)法知識(shí)的運(yùn)用能力，在解題前應(yīng)快速瀏覽短文掌握大意，在讀懂短文的基礎(chǔ)上，結(jié)合短文提供的特定的語(yǔ)言環(huán)境去逐句分析．要解決好填空，離不開(kāi)堅(jiān)實(shí)的語(yǔ)法知識(shí)，有了堅(jiān)實(shí)的語(yǔ)法知識(shí)才能對(duì)語(yǔ)言進(jìn)行正確的分析和判斷，從而答對(duì)題目，選出正確的答案．