Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business.He enjoyed his  1  and traveling.

   Then,after returning to the United States from a  2  trip to Russia,Mr.Cousins got sick.?Because he had pushed his body to the  3  of its strength on the trip,a change began to take place  4  him.The material between his bones became  5  .

   In less than one week after his return,he could not  6  .Every move that he  7  was painful.He was not able to sleep at night.The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr.Cousins’ problem and he might never  8  over the illness.Mr.Cousins,however,refused to give up  9  .

   Mr.Cousins thought that  10  thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body.He did not want to take medicine to cure himself.  11  ,he felt that happy thoughts or  12  might cure his illness.

   He began to  13  on himself while still in the hospital by watching funny shows on television.Mr.Cousins quickly found that 10 minutes of real laughter during the  14  gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.

    15  the doctors could not help him,Mr.Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could  16  his experiments with laughter.For eight days,Mr.Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows in television,reading funny books,and sleeping  17  he felt tired.Within three weeks,he felt well  18  to take a vacation to Puerto-Rico where he began running on the beach for  19  .

   After a few months,Mr.Cousins returned to work.He had laughed himself back to  20  .

1.A.time          B.holiday        C.sleep       D.work

答案:D

提示:time“时间”;holiday“假期”;sleep“睡眠”;work“工作”。根据下文意思应该选work。

2.A.boring         B.tiring         C.dangerous     D.pleasant

答案:B

提示:boring“乏味的”与上文的“He enjoyed his work and traveling”相反,不能选;dangerous和pleasant下文都没有迹象表明;由于“Mr.Cousins got sick”,故应选tiring“令人疲倦的”。

3.A.top          B.degree        C.problem      D.limit

答案:D

提示:top“顶部,顶峰”;degree“程度”;problem“问题”;limit“极限”。

4.A.from          B.around        C.inside       D.beside

答案:C

提示:由于下文是“The material between his bones...”故应选择inside。

5.A.weak         B.ill          C.false        D.painful

答案:A

提示:weak“脆弱的”;ill“生病的”,一般指一个生命体,而不是它的一部分。

6.A.speak         B.breathe       C.stand        D.see

答案:C

提示:由于下文有“Every move”,故只有stand最符合文意。

7.A.made         B.did         C.took        D.gave

答案:A

提示:make a move是固定搭配。

8.A.look         B.get         C.turn        D.think

答案:B

提示:look over“检查”;get over“克服”;turn over“使……翻转,推翻”;think over“考虑”。

9.A.effort         B.hope        C.treatment       D.arrangement

答案:B

提示:根据文章前后的意思,这里选择“放弃希望”最为合适。

10.A.foolish        B.unusual       C.funny        D.unhappy

答案:D

提示:由于下文出现了laughter,故这里应选unhappy“不高兴的”。

11.A.Instead        B.However       C.Therefore      D.Otherwise

答案:A

提示:instead意为“代替,更换”,即“Instead of medicine”。

12.A.sleep         B.travel        C.laughter      D.television

答案:C

提示:还是因为下文出现了laughter一词,此处要选laughter。

13.A.rescue        B.operate       C.try         D.experiment

答案:D

提示:rescue为及物动词,没必要跟介词on;operate on意为“给……做手术”,不合题意。

14.A.day          B.week         C.month       D.year

答案:A

提示:从前边的“ten minutes”及后面的“two hours of pain?free sleep at night”,可以判断应该是一个与之对应的时间单位,即day (during the day “白天的时候”)。

15.A.Promising       B.Deciding       C.Doubting      D.Recognizing

答案:B

提示:deciding在这里是现在分词作伴随状语,意为“确定”,因为上文有“The doctors told him that they did not know how to cure Mr.cousins-problem...”。

16.A.invent         B.begin       tinue      D.prove

答案:C

提示:continue意为“继续”。

17.A.until         B.whenever       C.unless       D.so that

答案:B

提示:whenever相当于at the moment when。

18.A.soon        pletely      C.slowly       D.enough

答案:D

提示:enough修饰的是well(健康的),enough to do...是固定句型。

19.A.exercise        B.illness        C.rest        D.pleasure

答案:A

提示:由于前边说到他在宾馆里已乐了许多天,所以这里不会再是rest和pleasure,故只有exercise合适。

20.A.power        B.sense         C.health       D.happiness

答案:C

提示:根据全文意思,这里肯定是health。

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