2013牛津译林版选修6Unit 1“Laughter is good for you”拓展课件.pptVIP

* Unit 1　Laughter is good for you教材背景链接 Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable. 没有什么比一个人发现什么东西可笑更能表现他的性格。 If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles，you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old. —Edward W．Howe 如果你不学会在麻烦时笑，当你变老时，你不会对任何东西笑。 ——爱德华·豪 名言佳句 Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. —Victor Borge 笑是两个人之间最短的距离。 ——维克托·伯盖 The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed. —Sebastian R．N.Chamfort 最浪费的日子是没有笑声的日子。 ——塞巴斯蒂安·查姆福特 类文欣赏 There is an English saying：“Laughter is the best medicine.”Until recently few people took the saying seriously.However，doctors have begun to look into laughter and the effects it has on the human body.They have found that laughter really can improve people’s health. Tests were carried out to study the effects of laughter on the body.People watched funny films while doctors checked their heart，blood pressure，breathing and muscles.It was found that laughter has similar effects to physical exercise.It increases blood pressure，the heart beat and breathing；it also works several groups of muscles in the face，the stomach，and even the feet.If laughter exercises the body it must be beneficial. Other tests have shown that laughter appears to be able to reduce the effect of pain on the body.In one experiment，doctors produced pain in groups of students who listened to different radio programmes.The group that tolerated the pain for the longest time was the group which listened to a funny programme.The reason why laughter reduces pain seems to be that it helps to produce chemical in the brain which diminishes both stress and pain. As a result of these discoveries，some doctors in the United States now hold laughter clinics，in which they help improve their patients’ condition by encouraging them to laugh.They have found that even if their patients do not really feel like laughing，making