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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）
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）
.
In the 1960s，after a busy and tiring trip to Europe，Mr.Cousins got sick.He（3）
he had a rare（罕见的）disease，known as ankylosing spondylitis（强直性脊柱炎）.
In less than a week after he got back，he could not stand.Every move that he made was（4）
.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）
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）
while still in the hospital by watching comedy shows on television.Mr.Cousins（7）
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）
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）
books，and sleeping whenever he felt tired.Within three weeks，he felt well enough（10）
a vacation.
After a few months，Mr.Cousins was able to carry on his pens.He had laughed himself back to health.
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