---How long is it _____ we last met?
--- About five years. You haven’t changed much.
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A．before |
B．since |
C．when |
D．that |
With the entrance examination _____ up, our classmates work harder and harder.
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A．came |
B．come |
C．coming |
D．having come |
Just call me whenever you are in trouble ______ I’ll come to help you immediately.
A. but B so C. or D. and
---I’m making ___ progress with the help of my teachers.
--- Great! I hope you can go to ____ college next year.
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A．/; a |
B．the; / |
C．the; a |
D．/; / |
Jim and Mary were both patiences in a Mental Hospital. One day because they were walking by the hospital swimming pool, Jim suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom. Mary promptly, jumped in save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled Jim out.
When the medical director became aware at Mary heroic act he immediately reviewed her file and called her into his office. “Mary, I have a good news and bad news. The good news is you’re being discharged because since you were able to jump in and save the life of other patient, I think you’ve regained your senses. The bad news is Jim, the patient you saved him, hung himself with his bathrobe belt in the bathroom, he is died.”
Mary replied, “He didn’t hang himself, I hang him up to dry.”
There is an English saying : “ ___1.____”. Until recently, few people took the saying seriously. Now, however, doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body.____ 2.___.
Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body. People watched funny films while doctors checked their hearts, blood pressure, breathing and muscles. It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise. ___3.____ . If laughter exercises the body, it must be beneficial.
Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programs. The group that tolerated (忍耐) the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny program. __4.___ .
____5.____ . They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing, making them smile is enough to produce beneficial effects similar to those caused by laughter.
A. Laughter can prolong one’s life.
B. As a result of these discoveries, some doctors in the United State now hold laughter clinics in which they help to improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh
C. The reason why laughter can reduce pain seems to be that it helps to produce a kind of chemicals in the brain which diminish both stress and pain
D. It increases blood pressure, the heart beating and breathing; it also works several groups of muscles in the face, the stomach and even the feet.
E. Although laughter helps cure the disease, doctors still can not put this theory into clinic practice.
F. laughter is the best medicine
G. They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health
