英语学习是一个长期奋斗的过程，只有策略、技巧和方法是不够的,还必须有刻苦学习的 恒心和毅力。如果没有奋斗的激情，离开坚持不懈的努力，我们很难获得成功。同学们， 一起努力吧!笑到最后，笑得最甜。
Norman Cousins was a businessman from the United States who often traveled around the world on business. He enjoyed his ___1___ and traveling.
Then, after returning to the United States from a ___2___ trip to the union of Soviet Socialist Republic(USSR), Mr. Cousins got sick. Because he had pushed his body to the ___3___ of its strength on the trip, a change began to take place ___4___ him. The material between his bones became ___5___.
In less than one week after his return, he could not ___6___. Every move that he ___7___ 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 ___8___ over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up ___9___ Mr. Cousins thought that ___10___ thoughts were causing bad chemical changes in his body. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. ___11___, he felt that happy thoughts or ___12___ might cure his illness.
He began to ___13___ 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 ___14___ gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night. ___15___ the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could ___16___ his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching funny shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping ___17___ he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt well ___18___ to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for ___19___. After a few months, Mr. Cousins returned to work. He had laughed himself back to ___20___.
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. painful
6. A. speak B. breathe C. stand D. see
7. A. made B. did C. took D. gave
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. rescue B. operate C. try D. experiment
14. A. day B. week C. month D. year
15. A. Promising B. Deciding C. Doubting D. Recognizing
16. A. invent B. begin C. continue D. prove
17. A. until B. whenever C. unless D. so that
18. A. soon B. completely C. slowly D. enough
19. A. exercise B. illness C. rest D. pleasure
20. A. power B. sense C. health D. happiness
【答案与解析】
1. D。他周游世界因为他是一个商人，因此说他喜欢他的工作和旅游。
2. B。因为外出经商，旅途一定劳累，因此选B，tiring 表示“使人劳累的”。
3. D。limit 表示“限度”，此句的意思是“他把最后的一点力气都用在旅途上”。
4. C。inside him 的意思是“在他的体内”。
5. A。此句的意思是“他骨头里的物质变得虚弱”。
6. C。从上文提到的原因可知，他不能站立。
7. A。make a move 意为“移动”(www.nmet168.com)。
8. B。get over 为固定搭配，意为“爬过、克服、熬过、恢复、原谅”。
9. B。give up hope 表示“放弃希望”。
10. D。从下文得知快乐的思想可以治疗他的疾病，因此可以判断unhappy thoughts导致他体内的bad chemical changes。
11. A。instead 表示“代替”，即他想用快乐的生活来替代服药。
12. C。or 为并列连词，和happy thoughts并列的就是laughter了。
13. D。experiment为不及物动词，意思是“进行实验、做试验”，常与介词 on, with 连用。
14. A。“during the day(在白天)与下文的 at night(在晚上)相对。
15. B。decide 在此为及物动词，意为“判定”，这里是现在分词短语作原因状语。
16. C。即在旅馆里continue his experiments with laughter(继续他的实验)。
17. B。每当他感到疲劳的时候他就睡觉休息。
18. D。他觉得身体恢复得足够的好了。
19. A。在海滩上跑步是为了锻炼身体。
20. C。back to health 意为“恢复了健康”。
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