Units 1-2 课文改编语法填空-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）选择性必修第一册

课文改编语法填空（外研选必一1.2单元） Clown Doctors In hospital waiting rooms, there's always 1.    atmosphere of boredom and tension. People sit 2.     (comfortable) on plastic chairs,looking through old magazines, all of which have been read hundreds of times. Anxious parents do what they can to comfort nervous and crying children. This is where we specially 3.     (train)clown doctors can be helpful, since scientific studies show that laughter produces chemicals 4.     (make) people feel better. I chose this career because of my experience of going to hospital when I was a kid. I will never forget how frightened and bored I felt then! Being a clown doctor 5.     (mean) I can help people by entertaining them. Visiting hospitals and other health care facilities, we work together with medical 6.      (profession). On a typical day, we spend our time 7.      (cheer) up patients,their families, and even the hospital staff! We do this by doing magic tricks, singing songs, telling stories and, of course, telling silly jokes. Some children, though, don't feel like laughing, especially 8.      they're in pain. We have to be very sensitive and work closely with the doctors and nurses, 9.      keep us updated on each patient. When I take off my wig and my red nose, I'm still wearing a big smile, as I remember all the fun and laughter of the day. I hope that clown doctors can help make the hospital a friendlier place to visit. After all, 10.       really is true that "laughter is the best medicine".                       We Regret to Inform You... As a writer, you may have spent years giving up your weekends and free time to write your life's work, yet still you receive a response from a publisher, which 1.    (read), "We regret to inform you..." Your heart sinks and your spirit is down. But don’t easily throw in the towel, since everyone knows a lot of highly successful writers received multiple rejections before their works 2.     (publish) and became best-sellers. One example is J.