For centuries, everybody knows laughter is the best medicine. Besides bringing joy, the doctor also【小题1】(believe) that laughter helps release stress, which is the cause of many diseases.

The celebration of World Laughter Day is【小题2】(mean) to bring good health, joy and world peace. It is a special day that can【小题3】(celebrate)annually by anyone on the first Sunday of May. All people need to do is laugh aloud and wildly. The fun event was started【小题4】Indian physician, Dr, Madan Kataria.

His quest to make the world a happier place【小题5】(begin) in 1995, with the introduction of Laughter Yoga (大笑瑜伽课), a fitness class【小题6】people practice breathing exercise and uncontrolled laughter.

Though only five students attended the first class, this fun way of exercising soon began to spread and in a short time it began to be held【小题7】more than 70 countries around the world.

Members get together every day or twice a week【小题8】exercise by simply laughing out loud, waving their hands and making funny faces each other to keep the laughing going.

In 1998, in an attempt to spread the laughter to every person, the physician declared the first Sunday of every May World Laughter Day. Not【小题9】(surprise), it became an instant hit. To make it more fun, Dr. Kararia suggested【小题10】(organize) the celebrations in public places so that other people could join in. Some even awarded prizes to participants who could perform this feat in natural and effortless way.

The Spring Festival family dinner is a big event for Chinese families. For this year’s, my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town, 【小题1】 I’m a bit unhappy about it. For me, it just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out.

When I was a little boy, the dinner 【小题2】 the eve of Spring Festival was 【小题3】 I looked forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity 【小题4】 (have) our whole family gathered together. I would run around the house 【小题5】 (listen) to the adults chatting about their year. I’d get under my mother’s 【小题6】 (foot) in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. She’d put tokens in some dumplings: candies for 【小题7】 sweet life and peanuts for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table, enjoying the food and being together again. We toasted each other, we laughed, and the simple, homemade dishes 【小题8】 (taste) more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef. I hope my children and 【小题9】 (they) children will still value our memories of preparing the dinner together. To me, the process is even 【小题10】 (important) than the dinner itself.