GEPT 全民英檢保證班中級閱讀測驗第八回

With the witness’ detailed _______, the police were able to identify the bank robbers easily.

Around the 1890’s, the first short motion pictures emerged. These earliest short movies had neither sound nor plot and were about 15-30 seconds long. Although by today’s standards they were extremely [blank_start]primitive[blank_end], for viewers at the beginning of the movie era, these short shows were quite amusing and realistic.

Many people know humor and laughter is powerful medicine for stress, pain and tension, but they complain that a sense of humor is an inborn gift: either you are endowed with it or you aren’t. The truth, however, is that the ability to laugh is your birthright, a natural part of your life. Infants begin smiling within the first weeks of life. Even if you grow up in a family where laughter does not run around so often, you can learn to develop a sense of humor at any stage of life. True or False: A serious person can’t learn how to develop a sense of humor.