21.根据短文内容,选择适当的单词或短语填空,使短文意思完整。
A. share his ideas B. laughter C. got sick D. happy thoughts E. unhappy thoughts F. sleep at night G. health H. well enough I. watching comedy shows J. give up hope |
There is an old English saying, "Laughter is the best medicine." Norman Cousins was the person who agreed with this.
Norman Cousins was the editor of a magazine for almost forty years. He also wrote and spoke about world peace, traveling to many different countries to (1)
.
In the 1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr. Cousins (2)
. He discovered he had a rare disease (罕见的疾病).
In less than a week after he got back, he could not stand. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to (3)
. The doctors told Mr Cousins that they did not know how to cure his problem and he might never get over the illness. Mr Cousins, however, refused to (4)
.
Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by (5)
. He did not want to take medicine to cure himself. Instead, he felt that (6)
or laughter might cure his illness.
He began to try on himself while still in the hospital by (7)
on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that ten minutes of real laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.
Deciding that the doctors could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital but he continued his experiments with (8)
. For eight days, Mr. Cousins rested in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television, reading funny books, and sleeping whenever he felt tired. Within three weeks, he felt (9)
to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for exercise.
After a few months, Mr. Cousin was able to carry on his wok. He had laughed himself back to (10)
.