Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
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62 positive through the cold season could be your best 63 against getting ill, new study findings suggest.
In an experiment that 64 healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a 65 sunny disposition were less likely to 66 ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence 67 a "positive emotional style" can help 68 off the common cold and other illnesses.
Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness 69 immune function and subjective as in happy people being less 70 by a scratchy throat or runny nose. "People with a positive emotional style may have different immune _71 to the virus," explained lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "And when they do get a cold, they may 72 their illness as being less severe."
Cohen and his colleagues had found in a 73 study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold, 74 some questions remained as to 75 the emotional trait itself had the effect.
For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality traits, self-perceived health and emotional "style". Those who 76 be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged 77 having a positive emotional style, 78 those who were often unhappy, tense and hostile had a negative style. The researchers gave them nasal drops 79 either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the 80 reported on any aches, pains, sneezing or congestion they had, while the researchers collected __81 data, like daily mucus production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes, happy people were less likely to develop a cold.
62. A) Living B) Staying C) Pulling D) Surviving
63. A) safeguard B) immunity C) caution D) defense
64. A) excluded B) expelled C) exposed D) exiled
65. A) generally B) commonly C) frequently D) genetically
66. A) feel B) fall C) fell D) fall
67. A) that B) which C) what D) why
68. A) keep B) warn C) ward D) avoid
69. A) boasting B) boosting C) receding D) reducing
70. A) suffered B) troubled C) disturbed D) hindered
71. A) function B) ability C) response D) reaction
72. A) thought B) related C) interpreted D) translated
73. A) formal B) former C) previous D) precious
74. A) and B) but C) so D) for
75. A) which B) whether C) where D) how
76. A) tended to B) inclined to C) apt to D) subject to
77. A) by B) with C) in D) as
78. A) while B) however C) what's more D) therefore
79. A) comprising B) consisting C) containing D) covering
80. A) patients B) adults C) volunteers D) researchers
81. A) objective B) subjective C) positive D) negative
。选项A和B强调某个整体是由哪些部分组成;选项D中的cover强调整体的覆盖。
三段中曾经出现过，这里指的是实验对象。
