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An old English saying says，"Laughter is the best medicine."One person who certainly would have agreed this is Norman Cousins.
   Norman Cousins was a（1）

writer

writer

of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years.He also wrote and spoke about world peace，traveling to many different countries to share his（2）

ideas

ideas

.
   In the 1960s，after a busy and tiring trip to Europe，Mr.Cousins got sick.He（3）

found

found

he had a rare（罕見的）disease，known as ankylosing spondylitis（強(qiáng)直性脊柱炎）.
   In less than a week after he got back，he could not stand.Every move that he made was（4）

painful

painful

.He was not able to sleep at night.The doctors told Mr.Cousins that they did not know how to cure （治愈）his disease and he might never get over the illness.Mr.Cousins，however，refused to give up hope.
   Mr.Cousins thought that the illness could（5）

be caused

be caused

by unhappy thoughts.He did not want to take medicine to cure himself.Instead，he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.
   He began to experiment on（6）

himself

himself

while still in the hospital by watching comedy shows on television.Mr.Cousins（7）

quickly

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（8）

hospital

hospital

and checked into a hotel room where he could continue his experiments with laughter.For eight days.Mr.Cousins rested in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television，reading （9）

funny

funny

books，and sleeping whenever he felt tired.Within three weeks，he felt well enough（10）

to take

to take

a vacation.
   After a few months，Mr.Cousins was able to carry on his pens.He had laughed himself back to health.