The Importance of Laughter - Test 8
B2 First · Open Cloze · Cambridge English First 2, Cambridge University Press
For questions 1–8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap. There is an example at the beginning.
Psychologists tell us that humour and laughter (0) ___ good for our social relationships. Having a good sense of humour is often regarded (1) ___ being one of the most important characteristics that people look (2) ___ in a friend. In classrooms, a humorous teacher can make learning far (3) ___ enjoyable and improve a student's motivation. In one study, students on a psychology course (4) ___ split into two different groups: one group was taught with a certain amount of humour, and the other with (5) ___ humour at all. Later, when researchers tested the students to see how much they had retained of (6) ___ they had heard in the lectures, they found that those (7) ___ had attended lectures containing humour scored significantly higher than the other students. Humour and laughter make us feel happy, and our laughter makes others laugh as (8) ___ , so if we laugh a lot we may be helping to make other people feel happy.
The importance of laughter
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