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     times, it was the new car, the biggest contract… A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate(前列腺)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 has 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. Life 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    . ”
A. Happiness   B. Success       C. Business     D. Love
A. normal    B. Common          C. worthless    D. Useless
A. increasing   B. changing      C. decreasing   D. recovering
A. one      B. other            C. no           D. other
A. shaking  B. nodding          C. knocking     D. raising
A. grow     B. learn            C. live         D. work
A. burns    B. breaks           C. shares       D. throws
A. disease   B. change          C. kid          D. cookie
A. hour     B. time             C. second       D. minute
A. think    B. come             C. worry        D. doubt
A. give up   B. add up          C. use up       D. call up
A. brave    B. curious          C. aware        D. sure
A. unless    B. because         C. though       D. until
A. Eating    B. Protecting      C. Having       D. Making
A. death    B. energy          C. life         D. cancer
A. happy    B. weak             C. upset        D. sad
A. result    B. fortunate        C. business     D. behavior
A. asked    B. left             C. deserted     D. recognized
A. deal     B. do               C. connect      D. link
A. alone    B. alive            C. ambitious    D. active