山东省平原县第二中学2023-2024学年高一上学期期末英语复习模拟练习

高一英语期末复习模拟练习 第一节阅读理解（共16小题；每小题3分，满分48分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A We all have a tendency to fake laugh, particularly when authority figures in our lives try to make a joke that just doesn't land. Though it might feel rude not to laugh when your in-law s or boss try to say something funny, pretending to do so might not be much better. It turns out, even if you think that your forced laughing sounds genuine, people are usually pretty good at separating truly spirited belly laughs from fake ones. But how can they possible know the difference? Well, when researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles studied the acoustic and perceptual differences between real and fake laughter, they found that some of the sounds associated with genuine laughter is“really hard to fake.”In their study, the researchers determined that subjects were only fooled by 37 percent of fake laughter. The most prominent factor distinguishing real laughter from fake laughter is duration—or, more specifically, the number of breaths taken in in-between-sounds-Seeing as it takes more effort and concentration to fake a laughas. opposed to do it genuinely, people tend to pause more in between their“ha-ha’s”when they’re faking it. Evidently, that pausing is pretty noticeable. A fake laugh is basically an imitation of a real laugh, but produced with a slightly different set of vocal muscles controlled by a different part of our brain,”Greg Bryant, the lead UCLA researcher on the study, explained.“The result is that there are subtle features of the laugh that sound like speech, and ... people are unconsciously quite sensitive to them.” People have also proven to be emotionally sensitive to laughter as well:“Our rains are very sensitive to the social and emotional significance of laughter,” said Carolyn McGettigan, a scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London. McGettigan conducted a 2014 study that recorded participants ' brain responses as they listened to the same people produce