Nearly a thousand people laugh heartily together for half an hour every morning in a park in Shenzhen. Guangzhou Daily took a closer look at those happy people.
They are members of a group named Laughing Club, and when they get together, all they do is laugh.
Zhang Lixin, the founder of the club and regarded as the ‘laugh leader’, told the paper that laughing does him a lot of good. He started after he read some advice in a book and tried giggling after quarrelling with his wife to relax.
After laughing for a few days, Zhang found himself more outgoing and relaxed. Soon his wife joined him, bringing the family more laughter and less bickering.
When he got to know a kind of “laughing yoga” is good for the health, Zhang went to Bombay to learn from the locals and developed what he learned into more than 30 ways of laughing.
The “lion bellow (吼)”is to shout with the fingers outstretched near the ears. There is the “open mouth laugh”, the “bow-pulling laugh”, the “welcoming laugh” and even the “quarrelling laugh”, with different arm movements of laugh style.
The “laugh movement” swept over Shenzhen in a few of months, attracting tens of thousands of people to join, and has been followed in nearby cities such as Guangzhou.
Every morning at the lake front and at 8 pm on every Monday, Wednesday, Friday at the mountain peak square in Lianhua Mountain Park, club members gather to laugh and shout loudly.
小题1:From the first paragraph we know that _________________________.
A．Guangzhou Daily is the source of the information
B．those happy people come from Guangzhou Daily
C．there is a Guangzhou Daily office near Laughing Club
D．Guangzhou Daily supported the laugh movement小题2:The people in Laughing Club laugh because they _____________________.
A．live a happy life
B．always feel happy
C．just can’t help it
D．want to relax themselves小题3: Which of the underlined words has a meaning similar to “laughing”?
A．Giggling.
B．Quarrelling.
C．Outgoing.
D．Bickering.小题4:According to the passage, when cannot you see club members practicing laughing in Lianhua Mountain Park?
A．At 8 pm on Sunday.
B．At 8 pm on Monday.
C．At 8 pm on Friday.
D．At 8 pm on Wednesday.小题5:What’s the idea expressed by the last two paragraphs?
A．The members of Laughing Club are increasing.
B．The laugh movement is becoming popular.
C．The laughing is done only in parks.
D．Laughing Club is practicing laughing hard.
