Directions: For each numbered blank in the following passage, fill in
a suitable word in each blank on the ANSWER SHEET.
When Donald arrived for his first group-therapy session he
was in a wheelchair, suffering from malignant melanoma and severely depressed.
But after he spent six months sharing stories and good times with other
cancer (51) and learning relaxation techniques, his mood had
improves considerably and (52) had his condition.
(53) his attitude brightened, an important change took
(54) inside his body: an increase in the activity of his
"natural killer cells," a crucial link in the immune (55) .
By year’s end, though he still had cancer, Donald was able to dance for his
group. (56) role, if any, does emotions play
in (57) or curing illness The question is older
(58) western medicine, but it has been given new importance by
modern science’s discovery of innovative (59) to measure the
mind’s impact (60) the body’s health. Scientists are studying
whether, and to what (61) , disease can be affected by the
use of (62) mind-body techniques as meditation, yoga, group
therapy, guided imagery (visualizing the desired effect) (63)
relaxation. There is little question that we can alter the course of
disease (64) manipulating psychological factors.
(65) to make this knowledge useful to physicians, we need to
understand the mechanisms. When researchers can pin (66) the
appropriate clinical uses for mind-body therapies, the result will be a
revolution in medical (67) . For many
patients, the (68) has already begun. Increasingly, people
are using mind-body therapies on their own, even (69) seeking
conventional medical treatment. Stories of seemingly miraculous recoveries may
grab the public’s attention but the real work is being (70)
quietly and out of sight. In laboratories around the world, medical
researchers are exploring the mind-body connection, separating myth from
reality, intuition from fact, belief from science.