题型：语法填空（语篇） 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
山东省枣庄市2019届高三上学期英语期末考试试卷（含小段音频）
Traditional Chinese medicine has been practised for around 3, 000 years, but it (be) relatively recent in the West, and acupuncture(针灸)only really became well known in the West in the 1970s as people began to travel (much)frequently between the two areas of the world.
A significant event in the history of acupuncture (come)in 1971, when a journalist from the New York Times had his appendix(阑尾) (remove)in China, when on a trip to the country with Henry Kissinger, the Secretary of State for the USA. Surgeons used acupuncture to deaden the pain of the operation, greatly impressed Kissinger.
Although at first doctors in the West were often sceptical of the (medicine)value of acupuncture, in the last few years it has become more established an alternative to Western medical treatments, since clinical tests have shown that acupuncture is effective for number of conditions.
In the West, the treatment is often used (relieve)headaches, dental pain, back pain and arthritis, and to treat depression, asthma, stress, high blood pressure and anxiety. Cherie Blair, a well-known human rights lawyer and the wife of the British Prime Minister, was recently spotted (wear)an acupuncture needle in her ear, suggesting that she uses the treatment to deal with stress.
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