Question

There is an old English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” One person certainly would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins.

Norman Cousins was the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years. He also____and spoke about world peace and anti-war issues(反战议题), traveling to many different countries to share his____

In the 1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe. Mr. Cousins got____He discovered he had a strange disease that caused great pain in his bones(骨头).

In less than a week after he got back, he could not____it. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to____at night. The doctor told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure (治疗)his problem and he might never____the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up hope .

Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by____thoughts. He did not want to take____to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

He began to experiment on himself while still in the hospital by watching comedy shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that ten minutes of____laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.

Deciding that the____could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could____his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins____in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television, reading amusing books, and sleeping whenever he felt____Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for____

After a few months, Mr. Cousins was____to carry on his work. He had laughed himself back to health.

1.A. laughed B. taught C. wrote D. copied

2.A. magazines B. subjects C. photos D. ideas

3.A. rich B. sick C. lonely D. famous

4.A. stand B. realize C. face D. improve

5.A. dream B. eat C. shout D. sleep

6.A. go through B. look after C. get over D. find out

7.A. unhappy B. pleasant C. silly D. clever

8.A. food B. time C. medicine D. money

9.A. unusual B. false C. real D. wild

10.A. friends B. laughter C. experiment D. doctors

11.A. begin B. end C. continue D. report

12.A. rested B. worked C. studied D. played

13.A. well B. tired C. afraid D. worried

14.A. help B. exercise C. freedom D. fun

15.A. able B. safe C. lazy D. uncertain

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