Why do people laugh? And what is laughter? I don't propose to answer this very complex __36__ problem, but I would like to make some observations about laughter and humor which mayhelp to clarify the issues.
When you think about it, laughter is a curious phenomenon. People momentarily lose theirpoise, screw their faces up into funny expressions, often rock their bodies back and forth, and emitlance would be con strange animal mal-like noises- s-which ina almost ar nsidered_37_quite unacceptablesnorting, wheezing, and so on. This odd behavior is usually__38__ feelings ofemotional satisfaction so strong that the first impulse after a good laugh is to see if one canexperience it again.Also, the best laughter appears to be a group phenom menon. That is, we laugh best when we arewith others and when they are engaging in the same sort of behavior. That__39__ occasionslaughter, the joke, is above all a social phenomenon. It requires a teller and an audience. We don'ttell jokes to oursel Ives, or if we do, th they may prompt a mo dest ch huckle. But when we get to the pub,we tell the same joke to a group and laugh upr roariously along with all the others. That's why alaugh track is an important part of TV comedy. However, watching television is not really a groupexperience, so if we are to enjoy the laughter a group __40__manufactured for us, so that we havethe impression of participating in a group experience.
【題組】36.
(A) physical
(B) physicist
(C) psychological
(D) psychology