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  3. That particularly humorless boss or dour neighbor may not have a personality defect---but a different brain structure, research

That particularly humorless boss or dour neighbor may not have a personality defect---but a different brain structure, research

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问题     That particularly humorless boss or dour neighbor may not have a personality defect---but a different brain structure, research published Wednesday suggests. Scientists in Canada say they have found how brain damage can affect a person’s sense of humor, adding to evidence that humor may be hard-wired into the brain.
    A team at the University of Toronto and the Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care in Toronto found that people with damage to the right frontal lobe of their brains do not really "get" ironic jokes the way they should. Instead, they prefer slapstick humor. "We always thought of humor as an intangible part of our personality," Prathiba Shammi of the University of Toronto, a psychologist who worked on the study, said in a statement. "Now we know humor can be tested and scientifically scrutinized.”
    Shammi compared the responses of 42 volunteers aged 18 to 70 to written and verbal jokes and cartoons. Half the group had a brain injury caused by stroke, tumor or surgical removal. People with damage to the right anterior frontal lobe were the least able to appreciate jokes and cartoons, Shammi reported in the journal Brain. Instead, they showed a preference for silly slapstick humor. Shammi gave an example of one of her jokes and the responses.
    A teen-ager is being interviewed for a summer job. "You’ll get $ 50 a week to start off," says his boss. "Then after a month you’ll get a raise to $75 a week. "Volunteers were offered three possible punch lines:
     a. "I’d like to take the job. When can I start?"
     b. "That’s great! I’ll come back in a month."
     c. "Hey boss, your nose is too big for your face!"  
Which of the following statements about the volunteers in the experiment is NOT true?
选项 A、The oldest volunteer was seventy years old.
B、They are tested with jokes both in written and spoken form.
C、The majority of the volunteers suffered from brain damage.
D、Comparatively people suffered from right anterior frontal lobe damage was most humorless.
答案C
解析 细节推断题。由第三段第一句“Shammi compared the responses of 42 volunteers aged 18 to 70 to written and verbal jokes and cartoons．”可见参与实验的志愿者是介于18到70岁之间。Shammi分析他们对书面的(written)和口头的(verbal)笑话和动画做出的回应。选项A和B都符合原文，可以排除。由第三段第二句“Half the group had a brain injury caused by stroke；tumor or surgical removal．”可见，半数的志愿者是由于中风、肿瘤或者手术而脑部受损。half和majority并不一致。因此，正确答案为C项。
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