Question

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

Answer 1