There is an English saying: “Laughter is the best medicine.” Until recently, few people took the saying ___45___. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effect it has on the human body. They have found that laughter really can ___46 ___ people’s health.
Tests were ___47___ 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 ___48___ blood pressure, the heart beat 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 ___49___ .
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body. In one experiment doctors ___50___ pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that ___51___ 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 relieve both stress and pain.
___52___ these discoveries, some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics, in which they help to improve their patients’ ___53___ 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 positive effects ___54___ to those caused by laughter.
【上海市吴淞中学2016-2017学年高一上学期第二次月考英语试题】相关文章:
★ 河北省保定市高阳中学2017-2017学年高一上学期第十一次周练英语试题
★ 河北省隆化存瑞中学2017-2017学年高一上学期第三次月考英语试题 Word版无答案
★ 浙江省临海市白云高级中学2016-2017学年高一上学期第二次段考英语试题
★ 河北省保定市高阳中学2016-2017学年高一上学期第十七次周练英语试题
★ 河北省保定市高阳中学2017-2017学年高一上学期第十二次周练英语试题
★ 辽宁省沈阳铁路实验中学2016-2017学年高一上学期第二次月考 英语试题 Word版含答案
★ 广东省揭阳一中2016-2017学年高一上学期第二次阶段考英语试题 word版含答案
★ 湖北省武汉市汉铁高级中学2017-2017学年高一上学期第一次月考英语试题
★ 河南省实验中学2017-2017学年高一上学期期中考试英语试题
★ 江苏省宿迁市2016-2017学年高一上学期第二次月考英语试题
最新
2019-11-15
2019-11-15
2019-11-14
2019-11-14
2019-11-11
2019-11-11