七月备考：SAT阅读每日一练（五）

　　SAT阅读的题量很大，如果想提高分数，课窝网建议大家需要大量进行练习，并好好总结。今天小编为大家分享一篇SAT阅读素材，希望大家自行检测下哦。

　　SAT阅读每日一练:

　　This passage is excerpted from Cindi May, “The Secret of Better Meetings: Fun.” 2015 by Scientific American.

　　The benefits of humor as an individual coping mechanism and a social lubricant are well established. Humor helps people cope with pain and tragedy, reduces social conflict andpromotesgroup cohesion. But [Nale] Lehmann-Willenbrock and [Joseph] Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation boost its bottom line. In a longitudinal investigation of teamefficiencyand productivity, they evaluated humor patterns in the regular team meetings of two industrial organizations in Germany, and then examined short-term and long-term outcomes.

　　To assess humor patterns, Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen first videotaped 54 different team meetings, each roughly forty-five minutes long, that collectivelyinvolved over 350 employees. If you find work meetings to be arduous and dull, you would not want to be on this research team, for the investigators then watched all of those meeting tapes and coded the team interactions. They were particularly interested inpositivehumor patterns, that is, upbeat, funny remarks followed by laughter. They intentionally did not includenegativehumor (sarcasm, put-downs) or failed humor (e.g., a joke followed by silence). After coding the humor patterns, they then evaluated what happened after the laughter.

　　Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen found that within the meetings, humor patterns triggered problem-solving behaviors (e.g., what do you think about thisapproach?), procedural suggestions (e.g., let’s talk about our next step), and goal orientation (e.g., we should target this issue). Humor patterns also promoted supportive behaviors like praise and encouragement, and led to new ideas and solutions.

　　Adapted from Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock and Joseph A. Allen, “How Fun Are Your Meetings? Investigating the Relationship Between Humor Patterns in Team Interactions and Team Performance.” 2014 by American Psychological Association.

　　"promotes" most nearly means

　　A encourages.

　　B presents.

　　C recommends.

　　D advocates.

　　答案及解析:A

　　Choice A is the best answer. It is clear from context that when the author says that humor “promotes group cohesion,” she means that it “encourages,” or stimulates or helps to develop, a feeling of unity among a group.

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