单选题 At his jokes we could not help but ______.
A. laugh B. laughing C. laughed D. laughter

【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] cannot help but do=cannot help doing不由得,不能不,禁不住要。这个could not help but do短语还可再简化为could not but do,意思不变,如:I couldn’t help but overhear what he said=I couldn’t but overhear what he said=I couldn’t help overhearing what he said。