C6. There is an old English (1)_____, “Laughter is the best medicine”. One person who certainly would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins. Norman Cousins the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years. He also wrote and (2) _____about world peace and anti-nuclear and anti-war issues, traveling (3)_____many different countries to share his ideas. In the 1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr. Cousins got sick. He discovered he had a rare disease known as ankylosing spondylitis that caused the joints between his bones to (4)_____ stiff. In less than a week after he got (5)_____, he could not stand. Every move that he (6)_____was painful. He was not able to sleep at night. The doctors told Mr. Cousins that they did not (7)_____how to cure his problem and he might never get over the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give (8)_____hope. Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused (9)_____unhappy thoughts. He did not want to (10)_____medicine to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness. 1. Saying2. Spoke3. To4. become (?)5. Back6. Made7. Know8. Up9. By10. TakeC7. Human memory, formerly believed to be rather inefficient, (1)_____really much more sophisticated than that of a computer. Researchers approaching the problem from a variety of (2)_____of view have all concluded that there is a great deal more stored in our minds than has been generally supposed. Dr. Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon, proved that by stimulating (3)_____brains electrically, he could elicit the total recall of complex events in his subjects’ lives. Even dreams and other minor events supposedly forgotten (4)_____many years suddenly emerged in detail. The memory trace is the term for (5)_____forms the internal representation of the specific information about the event stored in the memory. Assumed to have been made by structural changes in (6)____brain, the memory trace is not subject to direct observation but is rather a theoretical construct that is used to speculate about how information presented at a particular time can cause performance at a later time. Most theories include the (7)____of the memory trace as a variable in the degree of learning, retention, and retrieval possible for a memory. One theory is that the fantastic capacity for storage in the brain is the result (8)____an almost unlimited combination of interconnections between brain cells, stimulated by patterns of (9)_____. Repeated references to the same information support recall. Or, to say that another way, improved performance is the result of (10)_____the chemical bonds in the memory.1. Ís
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