摘要： Disco Club is the best place in town to . A. have Italian food B. see a film C. enjoy the dance music D. join “The Cat Band B An old English saying says, “Laughter is the best medicine. One person who certainly would have agreed this is Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins was a writer of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years. He also wrote and spoke about world peace, traveling to many different countries to share his ideas. In the 1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr. Cousins got sick. He found he had a rare disease, known as ankylosing spondylitis. In less than a week after he got back, he could not stand. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure his disease and he might never get over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up hope. Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by unhappy thoughts. He did not want to take medicine 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 real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. Deciding that the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise. After a few months, Mr. Cousins was able to carry on his pens. He had laughed himself back to health.

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