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【单选题】Ancient Greek philosopherAristotle viewed laughter as "a bodily exercise precious to health".But (1) some claims to the contrary, laughing probably has little influence on physical fitness. Laughter does (2) short-term changes in the function of the heart and its blood vessels, (3) heart rate and oxygen consumptionBut because hard laughter is difficult to (4) , a good laugh is unlikely to have (5) benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.
(6) , instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the (7) , studies dating back to the 1930s indicate that laughter (8) muscles, decreasing muscle tone for up to 45 minutes after the laugh dies down.
Such bodily reaction might conceivably help (9) the effects of psychological stress.Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types of (10) feedback, that improve an individual’s emotional state. (11) one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially rooted (12) physical reactions. It was argued at the end of the 19th century that humans do not cry (13) they are sad but they become sad when the tears begin to flow.
Although sadness also (14) tears, evidence suggests that emotions can flow (15) muscular responses. In an experiment published in 1988, social psychologist Fritz Strack of the University of Würzburg in Germany asked volunteers to (16) a pen either with their teeth-thereby creating an artificial smile- or with their lips, which would produce a (n) (17) expression. Those forced to exercise their smiling muscles (18) more exuberantly to funny cartons than did those whose mouths were contracted in a frown, (19) that expressions may influence emotions rather than just the other way around (20) , the physical act of laughter could improve mooD、

A、Except for
B、According to C、Due to D、As for
网考网参考答案：B
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[考点] 词义辨析题 [解析] 根据已知信息推测，应该是“根据一个经典的情绪理论，……”A．Except for表示“除了……”，它引出一个与前面的词相反的原因或者事例。B．According to“根据，按照”，表示依据，后面常跟表示理论、思想之类的词，是正确答案。C．Due to“由于，因为”后面跟一般原因。D．As for“至于，就……方面说”用以转换话题和表现态度，故排除。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>