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Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we do to pleasurable experiences? What is the his
Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we do to pleasurable experiences? What is the his
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2017-06-11
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Man is the only animal that laughs. Why is this true? What makes us respond as we do to pleasurable experiences? What is the history of this "happy【C1】______" , as someone once termed it, and just what is its function?
We are not short of theories to explain the mystery; for centuries, biologists, philosophers, psychologists, and medical men have sought a definitive explanation of laughter. One writer【C2】______that its function is to【C3】______others or to prove to be better than them by insulting them. Another took the opposite view: that we laugh in order not to cry. A psychologist offered the explanation that laughter functions as【C4】______for painful experiences, and that it serves to defend a person against what the psychologist termed "the many minor pains to which man is【C5】______". In the 17th century a writer set forth the theory that we laugh when we compare ourselves with others and find ourselves superior;【C6】______, we laugh at the weakness of others.
Virtually every theory has been concerned with either the structure or the function of laughter, whereas relatively few have been devoted to the question of its【C7】______. I propose to offer a theory which, so far as I am aware, has not previously been set forth; that only those animals capable of【C8】______are capable of laughter; and that therefore man, being the only animal that speaks, is the only animal that laughs.
Those of us who have observed chimpanzees closely feel quite confident that the chimpanzee occasionally exhibits behavior that looks very much like a primitive human laughter. This behavior, however, has been observed only in a human context;【C9】______it occurs under natural conditions is dubious; but【C10】______that under any conditions an ape is capable of such behavior is of more than passing interest—for does it not indicate that early man had the basics of laughter?
【C9】
选项
A、no matter if
B、whenever
C、however
D、whether or not
答案
D
解析
考查语法结构。本题空格所在的分句中,“is”是谓语动词,故空格部分要求出现一个引导词,引导句子it occurs under natural conditions,从而使整个从句it occurs under-natural conditions作“is”的主语。四个选项中,只有D.whether or not(是否)可以引导主语从句,符合条件。其余三个选项A.no matter if(无论是否),B.whenever(无论何时)和C.however(无论多么)通常用来引导让步状语从句,故选D。
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