Question

用下面方框中单词的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺(每词限用一次)。

research    common     they      fun        before       compare sudden      social     same      find       affect       exact

Worried That People Are Laughing at You?

     Imagine this situation. You pass a group of people. The people are talking to each other. You cannot hear what they are saying. But    1   they start laughing. What would you think? Would you think they were laughing at something   2    that one of them said? Or, to be honest with yourself, would you think they were laughing at you? Yes, you.

     Being laughed at is a  3  fear. But a major study published(公布)in 2009 found that this fear is not the   4    around the world, It differs from culture to culture.

     Some people in the study said they felt unsure of   5    in social situations and hid their feelings of insecurity (不安全). Others said they avoided (回避) social situations where they had been laughed at   6   .

     Shy people often avoid situations that would make them get into close contact (接触) with other people. They worry that something they say or do will make other people laugh at them, It can be truly sad for those who live with the fear of laughter. It can   7    how they lead their lives.

     In the study, a team from the University of Zurich led more than ninety   8   from around the world. They wanted to understand the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at. Another purpose of the study was   9   the levels of fear of being laughed at in different cultures. The scientists surveyed more than twenty-two thousand people in forty-two different languages. The   10   would appear in Scientific Humor.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

 suddenly

 funny

 common

 same

 themselves

 before

 affect

 researchers

 to compare

 findings

【解析】短文属于说明文。短文分析了“害怕被嘲笑”的恐怕心理，到底是因为普通的羞涩还是真的害怕被嘲笑，研究人员在做调查研究。

 意思是：在说话时，突然开始大笑。此处需要一个副词。

 “可笑的事”，形容词后置，修饰不定代词something。

 用于a 和名词之间，使用形容词；common“普通的，平常的”。

 the same“一样的”，与后句的“differs from…”相对应。

 feel sure of oneself “有自信”，这里使用了sure的否定形式；主语是Shy people，因此使用they的反身代词themselves。

 根据“they had been laughed at”可知用了过去完成时，是比说话时更早的事情，用before泛指以前。

 情态动词can后，使用动词原形。

 根据上下文可知这里指研究人员，用复数形式。

 通过上一句“the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at.”可知，目的就是为了做比较。此处用动词不定式短语做表语。

 这里指调查、研究的结果，用复数形式。