Read the following passage then choose the best answer to fill in each blank. Your head aches and you sneeze and cough. Your nose is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these symptoms that you have a cold, and you feel completely miserable. You are not sure if you ______(1)through the day. Everyone suffers _______(2) the common cold at some time or other. It isn’t a serious_______(3), but over a billon dollars a year is spent on different kinds of cold medicine every year. This medicine can relieve the symptoms. That is, it can make you cough ______(4), make your head less intense, and stop your nose _______ (5) for a while. However, it can cure your cold. So far, ________(6) no cure for the common cold and no medicine to prevent it. Although there is no cure or preventive medicine for colds, people have all kinds of ideas about _______(7)to prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won’t catch cold. Others say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, _________(8) you will catch cold. However, this is apparently not so. 1. A. lived B. will live C. are live D. have lived 2. A. from B. of C. with D. about 3. A. misery B. illness C. headache D. wrong 4. A. less B. fewer C. much D. more 5. A. walking B. jogging C. running D. flowing 6. A. it is B. there is C. they are D. there are 7. A. what B. why C. where D. how 8. A. and B. so C. or D. but