Question

用下面方框中單詞的適當形式填入短文空格內，使短文意思正確、通順(每詞限用一次)。

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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 (接觸) 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】短文屬于說明文。短文分析了“害怕被嘲笑”的恐怕心理，到底是因為普通的羞澀還是真的害怕被嘲笑，研究人員在做調查研究。

 意思是：在說話時，突然開始大笑。此處需要一個副詞。

 “可笑的事”，形容詞后置，修飾不定代詞something。

 用于a 和名詞之間，使用形容詞；common“普通的，平常的”。

 the same“一樣的”，與后句的“differs from…”相對應。

 feel sure of oneself “有自信”，這里使用了sure的否定形式；主語是Shy people，因此使用they的反身代詞themselves。

 根據“they had been laughed at”可知用了過去完成時，是比說話時更早的事情，用before泛指以前。

 情態動詞can后，使用動詞原形。

 根據上下文可知這里指研究人員，用復數形式。

 通過上一句“the difference between normal shyness and true fear of being laughed at.”可知，目的就是為了做比較。此處用動詞不定式短語做表語。

 這里指調查、研究的結果，用復數形式。