C.A policy announcement.
D.A new lifestyle introduction.
1.解析:选C 细节理解题通读第一段可以知道步行去上班有利于缓解压力解析:选D 细节理解题第二三段的内容告诉我们:研究发现步行上班有助于提高幸福指数解析:选A 词义猜测题最后一段中提到乘公交车上下班的人们早晚都遇到交通堵塞那肯定也是一件让人感到讨厌的事情解析:选A 推理判断题根据文章多处提到的researchers say, The study以及A research可推测本文应该属于一篇科学研究报告Something that has always interested me about Abraham Lincoln is, not surprisingly, his sense of humor. As far as I can tell, he’s the first American President to have one.
That’s because the term“sense of humor”really wasn’t in common usage until the eighteen sixties and seventies. In the eighteen forties and fifties, it was called“the sense of the ridiculous”, and didn’t have the positive connotations(隐含意义)that“sense of humor”has today. Back then, what was ridiculous was what invited ridicule(讥笑). Funniness and cruelty went hand in hand. Of course, they still do a lot of arm-in-arm walking in our day as well.
Lincoln’s humor was very different because, for one thing, it was actually“humor”as what the word meant in his time. We don’t make the distinction between“wit(风趣)”and“humor”anymore; but in the nineteenth century people did. Wit was unpleasant and offensive while humor was pleasant and sympathetic. It’s the difference we note now when we distinguish between“laughing with”and“laughing at”. Lincoln was much more about“laughing with”than“laughing at”. And when“laughing at”, it was often himself he was teasing.
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