She is well-known her poems and she is also famous an actress.
A．for; or B．as; as C．for ;as D．as; or
完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文，从短文所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Laughter and tears are part of living. But do you find enough time for laughter? I am not asking if you 36 lots of good times. 37 we should laugh during the happy times. But do you also laugh during the 38 times?
Erma Bombeck is known for her humorous books, but she wrote one that 39 a more serious topic： 40 in children．Erma talks with many children with cancer and learns 41 life lessons from them. She learns, for instance, that cancer survivors know how to 42 .
She 43 the experience of 15--year--old Jessica from Burlinton．Jessica’s leg was cut off at the knee because of cancer. She was learning to 44 a prosthesis(假肢)．Jessica tells about playing 45 . She kicked the ball 46 and it flew off in one 47 while her artificial leg flew into another．She fell on the 48 and laughed.
Jessica may not have laughed about her cancer，but she laughed about handling the__ 49 of it. And her laughter helped her a deal.
There is the story of 17--year--old Betsy. She 50 her way to the radiation room for her regular radiation therapy(化疗). As 51 ，she dropped her hospital gown and，wearing only her birthday suit， 52 onto the table and waited．The extra people in the room were not the medical students she had thought，but 53 painters giving an estimate on painting! Betsy laughed heartily about the incident．And like Jessica, her 54 to laugh helped her to deal with one of the most difficult thing a young person can endure—cancer.
Do you find plenty of 55 for laughter? You can if you also find reasons to laugh during the especially difficult times.
Survivors know how to laugh．If you can laugh even when the going is rough，you’ll make it. And you’ll smile at the end.
| 36. A. lose | B. miss | C. experience | D. laugh |
| 37. A. Of course | B. In addition | C. At first | D. First of all |
| 38. A. ordinary | B. difficult | C. pleasant | D. usual |
| 39. A. connected | B. reported | C. referred | D. covered |
| 40. A. cancer | B. disability | C. illness | D. laughter |
| 41. A. serious | B. important | C. careful | D. thoughtful |
| 42. A. cry | B. shout | C. laugh | D. face |
| 43. A. describes | B. learns | C. keeps | D. imagines |
| 44. A. put | B. have | C. wear | D. make |
| 45. A. basketball | B. badminton | C. volleyball | D. soccer |
| 46. A. gently | B. hard | C. slightly | D. straightly |
| 47. A. way | B. method | C. direction | D. point |
| 48. A. floor | B. table | C. chair | D. bed |
| 49. A. causes | B. results | C. process | D. ends |
| 50. A. fought | B. took | C. made | D. pushed |
| 51. A. common | B. often | C. before | D. usual |
| 52. A. climbed | B. lay | C. jumped | D. sat |
| 53. A. also | B. rather | C. already | D. almost |
| 54. A. strengh | B. willingness | C. ability | D. confidence |
| 55. A. times | B. places | C. days | D. moments |