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• For questions 1−10, read the text below and then decide which answer best fits each gap.

                                                                                         HAVING A LAUGH

In one study conducted in 2016, samples of laughter from (1) _________ of English-speaking students (2) _________ at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A team made up of more than 30 (3) __________ scientists, anthropologists, and biologists then played these recordings to listeners from 24 (4) __________ societies, from indigenous tribes in New Guinea to city-dwellers in India and Europe. Participants were asked (5) __________ they thought the people laughing were friends or strangers. On average, the results were remarkably consistent: worldwide, people’s guesses were correct approximately 60% of the time.

  Researchers (6) __________ that different types of laughter serve as codes to complex human social hierarchies. A team led by Christopher Oveis from the University of California, San Diego, found that (7) __________ individuals had different laughs from low-status individuals and that strangers’ judgments of an individual’s social status (8) ____________ by the dominant or submissive quality of their laughter. In their study, 48 male college students (9) _____________  to groups of four, with each group (10) _____________ two low-status members, who had just joined their college fraternity group, and two high-status members, older students who had been active in the fraternity for at least two years.

1, A. couples          B. combines         C. put together         D. pairs

2, A. have recorded         B. recorded      C. were recorded          D. being recorded

3, A. intellectual        B. spiritual        C. psychological         D. physical

4, A. diverse          B. various        C. miscellaneous         D. disparate

5, A. that     B. whether     C. jeopardize        D. when

6, A. were further found     B. were found      C. had thus found      D. have also found

7, A. exalted      B. high-status    C. high-position    D. higher-reputation

8, A. were influenced      B. were affected     C. was being influenced    D. has been impacted

9, A. were eventually assigned    B. were randomly allocated     C. were randomly assigned 

10, A. inclusive of      B. comprised      C. incorporated       D. composed of

Answer 1

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In one study conducted in 2016, samples of laughter from (1) _________ of English-speaking students (2) _________ at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A team made up of more than 30 (3) __________ scientists, anthropologists, and biologists then played these recordings to listeners from 24 (4) __________ societies, from indigenous tribes in New Guinea to city-dwellers in India and Europe. Participants were asked (5) __________ they thought the people laughing were friends or strangers. On average, the results were remarkably consistent: worldwide, people’s guesses were correct approximately 60% of the time.

  Researchers (6) __________ that different types of laughter serve as codes to complex human social hierarchies. A team led by Christopher Oveis from the University of California, San Diego, found that (7) __________ individuals had different laughs from low-status individuals and that strangers’ judgments of an individual’s social status (8) ____________ by the dominant or submissive quality of their laughter. In their study, 48 male college students (9) _____________  to groups of four, with each group (10) _____________ two low-status members, who had just joined their college fraternity group, and two high-status members, older students who had been active in the fraternity for at least two years.

1, A. couples          B. combines         C. put together         D. pairs

2, A. have recorded         B. recorded      C. were recorded          D. being recorded

3, A. intellectual        B. spiritual        C. psychological         D. physical

4, A. diverse          B. various        C. miscellaneous         D. disparate

5, A. that     B. whether     C. jeopardize        D. when

6, A. were further found     B. were found      C. had thus found      D. have also found

7, A. exalted      B. high-status    C. high-position    D. higher-reputation

8, A. were influenced      B. were affected     C. was being influenced    D. has been impacted

9, A. were eventually assigned    B. were randomly allocated     C. were randomly assigned 

10, A. inclusive of      B. comprised      C. incorporated       D. composed of