I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: At a hospital in Illinois, doctors and patients dress up as clowns and put on little plays to make each other laugh.A hospital in prefix = st1 /New Yorkputs funny books in its library for patients. Can laughter make sick people feel better? Yes, say scientists.Laughter is no laughing matter.Scientists think laughter can help sick people feel less pain and get better more quickly.This new idea is being taught to students in medical school. Doctors have known for a long time that stress and loneliness, lack of friends and family can harm sick people.Now they are learning that laughter can help put people on the road to recovery. Scientists have discovered that laughter gives the body a healthy form of exercise.Also, laughter sets free a chemical in the body that speeds healing. Some doctors are using this new research to make their patients feel like having a million dollars.At a California hospital, people who have cancer tell each other funny stories and perform with a famous actor who has had cancer surgery . Laughter can be good medicine. Question: Some hospitals are trying to make patients laugh because _ . Options: A: it makes patients feel better B: patients will be satisfied with them C: patients will be younger D: it can cure all the illnesses
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: For centuries ,the only form of written correspondence was the letter .Letters were ,and are ,sent by some form of postal service ,the history of which goes back a long way. Indeed ,the Egyptians began sending letters from about 2000 BC, as did the Chinese a thousand years later. Of course ,modern postal services now are much more developed and faster ,depending as they do on cars and planes for delivery .Yet they are still too slow for some people to send urgent documents and letters. The invention of the fax machine increased the speed of delivering documents even more .When you send a fax ,you are sending a copy of a piece of correspondence to someone by telephone service .It was not until the early 1980s that such a service was developed enough for businesses to be able to fax documents to each other. The fax service is still very much in use when copies of documents require to be sent ,but ,as a way of fast correspondence, it has been largely taken the place of by email. Email is used to describe messages sent from one computer user to another. There are advantages and disadvantages with emails. If you send someone and email, then he will receive it extremely quickly. Normal postal services are rather slow as far as speed of delivery is concerned. However ,if you write something by email ,which you might later regret ,and send it immediately ,there is no chance for second thoughts. At least ,if you are posting a letter you have to address and seal the envelope and take it to the post box .There is plenty of time to change your mind. The message is think before you email! Question: The text mainly deals with_. Options: A: the progress in correspondence B: the advantage of fax machines C: the advantage of emails D: the invention of fax machines
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Q: I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Throughout the history of the arts, the nature of creativity has remained constant to artists. No matter what objects they select, artists are to bring forth new forces and forms that cause change-to find _ where no one has ever seen or experienced it before. Landscape is another unchanging element of art. It can be found from ancient times through the 17th-century Dutch painters to the 19th-century romanticists and impressionists. In the 1970s, Alfred Leslie, one of the new American realists, continued this practice. Leslie sought out the same place where Thomas Cole, a romanticist, had produced paintings of the same scene a century and a half before. Unlike Cole who insists on a feeling of loneliness and the idea of finding peace in nature, Leslie paints what he actually sees. In his paintings, there is no particular change in emotion, and he includes ordinary things like the highway in the background. He also takes advantage of the latest developments of color photography to help both the eye and the memory when he improves his painting back in his workroom. Besides, all art begs the age-old question: What is real? Each generation of artists has shown their understanding of reality in one form or another. The impressionists saw reality in brief emotional effects, the realists in everyday subjects and in forest scenes, and the Cro-Magnon cave people in their naturalistic drawings of the animals in the ancient forests. To sum up, understanding reality is a necessary struggle for artists of all periods. Over thousands of years the function of the arts has remained relatively constant. Past or present, Eastern or Western, the arts are a basic part of our immediate experience. Many and different are the faces of art, and together they express the basic need and hope of human beings. Question: Which of the following is the main topic of the passage? Options: A: History of the arts. B: Basic questions of the arts. C: New developments in the arts. D: Use of modern technology in the arts.
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I'm taking a test and have to guess the right answer to the question after the article. Article: Born in 1983 in Arizona, US, Jessica has learned to live her life with her feet. She was born without arms, and no doctors could figure out why. There were many questions at the time about whether Jessica would be able to live a "normal" life. However, Jessica ' s father said , "I have never shed a tear about her birth condition. " With the support of her parents and family, Jessica became confident in herself as an adult and continued to explore the world with her feet. As a child, Jessica studied dance in her home town. When the first performance arrived, she asked to be put in the back row. Her dance teacher told her there was no back row. Nervously, she took the stage with the other students and performed her routine. When she finished, the applause from the audience gave her encouragement and the confidence to continue dancing for 14 years. After graduating from high school, Jessica attended the University of Arizona, where she earned a bachelor' s degree in Psychology. When talking about her major, she frequently explainsthat psychology has a great effect on her life, helping her out of a physical limitation. During college, Jessica signed up for a club of Taekwondo and learned all of the color1 belt material. The instructors created a course that would be accessible to any future armless students. Jessica became the first armless person to earn a black belt in the club. Jessica' s most famous accomplishment was learning how to fly. It took three states, four airplanes, two flight instructors and a discouraging year to find the right aircraft. She received the Cuinness World Record for being the first person permitted to fly an airplane with only her feet. Now Jessica works as a motivational lecturer. She travels the world sharing her story and encouraging people to be creative with the slogan "Think outside the shoe." Question: From what Jessica' s father said. we know that Options: A: he showed sympathy to her B: he had confidence in her C: he lost hope in her D: he felt sorry about her
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B