Question

完形填空(2014武漢)

　　There is an old English saying，“Laughter is the best medicine．”O(jiān)ne person certainly would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins．

　　Norman Cousins was the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years．He also___1.__and spoke about world peace and antiwar issues(反戰(zhàn)議題)，traveling to many different countries to share his__2.___．

　　In the 1960s，after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe．Mr．Cousins got____3.____．He discovered he had a strange disease that caused great pain in his bones(骨頭)．

　　In less than a week after he got back，he could not___4.____it．Every move that he made was painful．He was not able to___5.____at night．The doctor told Mr．Cousins that they did not know how to cure(治療)his problem and he might never____6.____the illness．Mr．Cousins，however，refused to give up hope．

　　Mr．Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by____7.____thoughts．He did not want to take___8.____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___9.____laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain－free sleep at night．

　　Deciding that the___10.___could not help him，Mr．Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could___11.___his experiments with laughter．For eight days，Mr．Cousins___12.__in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television，reading amusing books，and sleeping whenever he felt___13.___．Within three weeks，he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for___14.___．

　　After a few months，Mr．Cousins was___15.___to carry on his work．He had“l(fā)aughed”himself back to health．

16.A．laughed B．taught C．wrote D．copied

17.A. magazines B．subjects C．photos D．ideas

18.A．rich B．sick C．lonely D．famous

19.A．stand B．realize C．face D．improve

20.A．dream B．eat C．shout D．sleep

21.A．go through B．look after C．get over D．find out

22.A．unhappy B．pleasant C．silly D．clever

23.A．food B．time C．medicine D．money

24.A．unusual B．false C．real D．wild

25.A．friends B．laughter C．experiment D．doctors

26.A．begin B．end C．continue D．report

27.A．rested B．worked C．studied D．played

28.A．well B．tired C．a(chǎn)fraid D．worried

29.A．help B．exercise C．freedom D．fun

30.A．a(chǎn)ble B．safe C．lazy D．uncertain

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