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3. Recently the police w arn the driver not to drive too fast because of the bad weather these days.
(D )2. (2014 武汉中考）一A nice tie! A. present?
一Yes,it is. My aunt_it to me for my last birthday.
A. was sending B. had sent
C. will send D. sent
There is an old English saying,“ Laughter is the best medicine. ” One person who 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 1 and spoke about world peace and anti-war issues (反占足 议题）,traveling to many different countries to share his 2 .
In the 1960s, after returning to theUnited Statesfrom a busy and tiring trip to Europe. Mr. Cousins got
3 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
4 it. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to 5 at night. The doctor told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure (治疗)his problem and he might never 6 the illness. Mr. Cousins， however，refused to give up hope.
Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by 7 thoughts. He did not want to take 8 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 9 laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.
Deciding that the 10 could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could 11 his experiments with laughter. For eight days，Mr. Cousins 12 in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television，reading amusing hooks，and sleeping whenever he felt 13 . Within
three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for 14 .
After a few months, Mr. Cousins was 15 to carry on his work. He had laughed himself back to health.
(C ) 1. A. laughed B. taught
C. wrote D. copied
( D )2. A. magazines B. subjects
C. photos D. ideas
(B )3. A. rich B. sick
C. lonely D. famous
(A )4. A. stand B. realize
C. face D. improve
(D )5. A. dream B. eat
C. shout D. sleep
(C )6. A. go through B. look after
C. get over D. find out
( A )7. A. unhappy B. pleasant
C. silly D. clever
(C )8. A. food B. time
C. medicine D. money
(C )9. A. unusual B. false
C. real D. wild
(D ) 10. A. friends B. laughter
C. experiment D. doctors
(C ) 11. A. begin B. end
C. continue D. report
(A ) 12. A. rested B. worked
C. studied D. played
(B ) 13. A. well B. tired
C. afraid D. worried
(B ) 14. A. help B. exercise
C. freedom D. fun
(A ) 15. A. able B. safe
C. lazy D. uncertain
( C )7. Mr. Smith is going on a tour of Xi’an because
he would like to_ Chinese history and
culture.
A. learn from B. look through
C. learn about D. look up
4. Danny说他明天出发去上海。
Danny says that he will leave for Shanghai tomorrow.
8. Nobody wants to end up life _(结束一生）like her.
( B )5. Mr. Wang would not like his dear daughter to
_like him, as a result, he sent her to
the school again.
A. end up with B. end up
C. at the end D. in the end
1.增力口，发胖 put on weight
2.摆开，布置 lay out
1. What do you like best (最喜欢）about the
Dragon Boat Festival?
