课时作业13 Humour-（课时作业）【红对勾讲与练】2024版新高考英语大一轮复习全新方案（北师大版）

选择性必修第二册　 3 　 选择性必修第二册 课时作业 13　 HUMOUR Ⅰ. 阅读理解 " (2023·河北邢台高三开学考试) Not all think laughter is the best medicine, but it seems to help. So scientists carried on a new study of diabetes ( 糖 尿 病) patients who were given a good dose of humor for a year to prove it. Researchers divided 20 high-risk diabetic patients into two groups. Both groups were given standard diabetes medicine. Group L viewed 30 minutes of humor of their choice,while Group C, the control group,did not. This went on for a year of treatments. By two months into the study,the patients in the laughter group had lower level of the hormones epinephrine ( 肾 上 腺 素 ), considered to cause stress,which is known to be deadly. After the 12 months, HDL cholesterol rises 26 percent in Group L but only 3 percent in Group C. In another measure, C-reactive proteins, a maker of heart disease,drop 66 percent in the laughter group but only 26 percent in the control group. “The best doctors believe that there is a physical good brought about by the positive emotion, happy laughter,” said study leader Lee Berk of Loma Linda University. “ And other research has found that humor makes us more hopeful. Still,more study is needed,” Berk said. The research by Berk found that humor can bring about similar changes in body chemistry, which was proved in the new study. The research result will be presented this month at the meeting in the US. Research at the University of Maryland School of Medicine shows that laughter causes the inner lining of blood vessels to expan