Question

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

Answer 1

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解析:

1. D。他周游世界因?yàn)樗�是一個(gè)商人，因此說他喜歡他的工作和旅游。

2. B。因?yàn)橥獬鼋?jīng)商，旅途一定勞累，因此選B，tiring 表示“使人勞累的”。

3. D。limit 表示“限度”，此句的意思是“他把最后的一點(diǎn)力氣都用在旅途上”。

4. C。inside him 的意思是“在他的體內(nèi)”。

5. A。此句的意思是“他骨頭里的物質(zhì)變得虛弱”。

6. C。從上文提到的原因可知，他不能站立。

7. A。make a move 意為“移動(dòng)”。

8. B。get over 為固定搭配，意為“爬過、克服、熬過、恢復(fù)、原諒”。

9. B。give up hope 表示“放棄希望”。

10. D。從下文得知快樂的思想可以治療他的疾病，因此可以判斷unhappy thoughts導(dǎo)致他體內(nèi)的bad chemical changes。

11. A。instead 表示“代替”，即他想用快樂的生活來替代服藥。

12. C。or 為并列連詞，和happy thoughts并列的就是laughter了。

13. D。experiment為不及物動(dòng)詞，意思是“進(jìn)行實(shí)驗(yàn)、做試驗(yàn)”，常與介詞 on, with 連用。

14. A�！癲uring the day(在白天)與下文的 at night(在晚上)相對(duì)。

15. B。decide 在此為及物動(dòng)詞，意為“判定”，這里是現(xiàn)在分詞短語作原因狀語。

16. C。即在旅館里continue his experiments with laughter(繼續(xù)他的實(shí)驗(yàn))。

17. B。每當(dāng)他感到疲勞的時(shí)候他就睡覺休息。

18. D。他覺得身體恢復(fù)得足夠的好了。

19. A。在海灘上跑步是為了鍛煉身體。

20. C。back to health 意為“恢復(fù)了健康”。