文档介绍：1997-9上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试
上海市英语中级口译资格证书第一阶段考试
SECTION 1: LISTENING TEST (40 minutes)
Part A: Spot Dictation
Directions: Is this part of the test, you will hear a passage and read the same passage with blanks
in it. Fill in each of the blanks with the word or words you have heard on the tape. Write your
answer in the corresponding space in your ANSWER BOOKLET. Remember you will hear the
passage only once.
Doctors are starting to believe that laughter not only improves your state of mind, but
actually affects your entire physical well-being. Britain's first laughter therapist, Robert Holden
says:“ Instinctively we know that laughing help us
(1) and alive. Each time we
laugh we feel better and more
(2).”
A French newspaper found that in 1930 the French laughed
(3) for nineteen
minutes per day. By 1980 this had fallen to
questioned said that they would like to
(4). Eight per cent of the people
(5). Other research suggests that children
laugh on average about
(6) a day, but by the time they reach
(7) this has
been reduced to about fifteen times. Somewhere in the process of
astonishing 385 laughs a day.
(8) we lose an
William Fry, a psychiatrist from California, studied the
patients to watch funny films, and monitored their
He found that laughter has a similar effect to
(9) on the body. He got
(10), heart rate and muscle tone.
(11). It speeds up the heart rate,
increases blood pressure and quickens breathing. It also makes out
(12) muscles
work. Fry thinks laughter is a type of
provide a kind of
(13) in the spot. Laughter can even
(14). Fry had proved that laughter produces
endorphins—chemicals in the body that relieve pain. Researchers divided
(15)
into four groups. The first group Listened to a
(16) for twenty minutes. The
other three groups listened to either an informative tape, or a cassette
(17) hem,
or no tape at all. Researchers found th