备考SAT的小伙伴，许多人都有这样的疑问：到底怎么样才能提升自己的阅读水平?其实提高阅读能力少不了题目的练习，那么，今天小编就为大家分享一篇SAT阅读的练习题，希望能够帮助到各位。
Critical Reading>Select an Answer
The benefits of humor as an individual copingmechanism and a social lubricant are wellestablished. Humor helps people cope with pain andtragedy, reduces social conflict and promotesgroup cohesion. But Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allenexplored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation boost its bottom line. In a longitudinal investigation of team efficiency and productivity, they evaluated humorpatterns in the regular team meetings of two industrial organizations in Germany, and thenexamined short-term and long-term outcomes.
To assess humor patterns, Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen first videotaped 54 different teammeetings, each roughly forty-five minutes long, that collectively involved over 350 employees. Ifyou find work meetings to be arduous and dull, you would not want to be on this researchteam, for the investigators then watched all of those meeting tapes and coded the teaminteractions. They were particularly interested in positive humor patterns, that is, upbeat, funnyremarks followed by laughter. They intentionally did not include negative humor (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 triggeredproblem-solving behaviors (e.g., what do you think about this approach?), proceduralsuggestions (e.g., let's talk about our next step), and goal orientation (e.g., we should targetthis issue). Humor patterns also promoted supportive behaviors like praise andencouragement, and led to new ideas and solutions.
The underlined word "promotes" most nearly means _____
A.encourages.
B.presents.
C.recommends.
D.advocates.
答案：A
解析：
Choice A is the best answer. It is clear from contextthat when the author says that humor "promotesgroup cohesion," she means that it "encourages," orstimulates or helps to develop, a feeling of unityamong a group.
以上就是小编为大家提供的SAT阅读的练习题了，不知道看过以后有没有帮助到你呢?当然，我们在平常的学习中，也可以尝试多做这样的题目，不但能够提升我们的阅读水准，还能积累词汇，不失为一个好方法。
