题目内容：

Eating the Cookie

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way. _______ was “having the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life was _______.

Unfortunately, the cookie kept _______. Some of the time it was money, and sometimes power. At_______time, it was the new car, the biggest contract. A year and a half after his diagnosis(诊断) of prostate cancer, he sits_______his head regretfully. “It seems that I stopped learning how to_______ after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it _______, he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty three. It’s taken me this long to understand that the _______ will never make me happy for long.

The_______you have the cookie it starts to fall to pieces or you start to ________about it crumbling (弄碎) or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to________a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be________that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it ________ you are so busy just trying not to lose it. ________ the cookie is not what life is about.”

My patient laughs and says________has changed him. For the first time he is________. No matter if his________is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer________me, ‘What is really important?’ Well, life is important. Live any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to________with the cookie: it has to do with being ________.”

1.A. Happiness    B. Success    C. Business    D. Love

2.A. normal    B. common    C. worthless    D. useless

3.A. increasing    B. changing    C. decreasing    D. recovering

4.A. one    B. a    C. no    D. other

5.A. shaking    B. nodding    C. knocking    D. raising

6.A. grow    B. learn    C. live    D. work

7.A. burns    B. breaks    C. shares    D. throws

8.A. disease    B. change    C. kid    D. cookie

9.A. hour    B. time    C. second    D. minute

10.A. think    B. come    C. worry    D. doubt

11.A. give up    B. add up    C. use up    D. call up

12.A. brave    B. curious    C. aware    D. sure

13.A. unless    B. because    C. though    D. until

14.A. Eating    B. Protecting    C. Having    D. Making

15.A. death    B. energy    C. life    D. cancer

16.A. happy    B. weak    C. upset    D. sad

17.A. result    B. fortunate    C. business    D. behavior

18.A. asked    B. left    C. deserted    D. recognized

19.A. deal    B. do    C. connect    D. link

20.A. alone    B. alive    C. ambitious    D. active