There is an old English saying ,”Laugh is the best medicine .”One person who certainly 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 trip to Europe ,Mr .Cousins got _________.He discovered he had a strange disease that caused great pain in his bones .

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.

Deciding that the ________________could not help him ,Mr.cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he ______________his experiments with laughter .For eight days ,Mr.Cousins ______________in the hotel room watching comedy on television ,reading amusing books ,and sleeping whenever he left ______________.Within three weeks ,he felt well to take a vacation to Pueto 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

Choose the right sentences to complete the article.

The Taj Mahal is a love story, a sad and beautiful one.1.. Three hundred years ago, there lived an Indian emperor called Shah Jahan. His wife was a beautiful and bright woman whom he loved greatly. Her title was Mumtazl Mahan: its shortened form Taj Mahan, means “pride of the palace”. In the year 1630 this beloved wife of the emperor died. 2.. He decided out of his love for his wife, to build her the most beautiful tomb that had ever been seen.

3.. It took more than twenty thousand men working over a period of 18 years to build the Taj Mahan, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

The building itself stands on a marble platform 29 meters square and 6-7 meters high. 4.. The Taj itself raises another 61 meters into the air. It is an eight-sided building made of white marble.

The emperor planned to build the same tomb (坟墓)of black marble for himself. 5.. However his son put him into a prison in the palace before he could finish, and for the rest of his life, he could only gaze across river at the tomb of his beloved wife.

A. It sets on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge.

B. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne.

C. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale.

D. Towers rise from each of the four corners.

E. He organized the best artists and architects(建筑师) from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was complete.

A. It sets on the other side of the river connected by a silver bridge.

B. He was so brokenhearted that he thought of giving up his throne.

C. If it didn’t exist, we would easily imagine that the story of its construction was simply a fairy tale.

D. Towers rise from each of the four corners.

E. He organized the best artists and architects(建筑师) from India, Turkey, Persia and Arabia and finally, the design was complete.

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