Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his       and traveling.
Then, after returning to the United States from a       trip to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the       of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place        him. The material between his bones became      .
In less than one week after his return, he could not      . Every move that he       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       over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up      . Mr. Cousins thought that       thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself.      , he felt that happy thoughts or       might cure his illness.
He began to       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       gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.       the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into (登记住宿) a hotel room where he could       his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping __   he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well       to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for      . After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to      .

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

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

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

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

5. A.weak B.ill C.false? D.strong

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

7. A.made B.did C.put D.ran

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. A.Promising B.Telling C.Imagining? D.Guessing

16. A.invent? B.begin C.continue? D.prove

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

18. A.soon B.very C.slowly D.enough

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

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

 

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