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  3. Choose one appropriate word from the following word bank to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 15 in the passage below. Chang

Choose one appropriate word from the following word bank to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 15 in the passage below. Chang

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问题 Choose one appropriate word from the following word bank to fill in the blanks numbered from 1 to 15 in the passage below. Change the word form where necessary. Remember the bank contains some extra words that may not be used in filling in any of the blanks. Write the words in their correct forms with the corresponding numbers on Answer Sheet(2)
temporary     fear       extend        passive      require
substantial     count      instinctive     increase     lie
permanent     hardly     stiff           stick       adopt
hard          current     strength       off        standard
    " Use it or lose it" is the new approach to back pain. In the last few years, there has been a【W1】______change in the way doctors treat this most common disease. Weeks or months of rest in bed —the【W2】______method of treatment for so long — are now thought to be surely harmful. Muscles become soft, joints become【W3】______and what started out as a【W4】______acute condition quickly turns into a continuing disability. Far better, according to current thinking, is to put up with a little pain and get moving.
    The change has not happened overnight. For years, some specialists have had an【W5】______feeling that bed rest was not the answer. But what finally put an end to【W6】______bed rest was a study of more than 200 patients who were treated for back pain in a clinic in Taxes. Not only did patients who had two days’ bed rest do totally as well as those given seven days, they【W7】______only half as much time altogether【W8】______work.
    As a result of the study, experts now recommend that【W9】______anyone with acute back pain should spend more than a few days【W10】______down. After that should come a program of gradually【W11】______exercise, probably accompanied by some【W12】______treatments such as massage, heat or ultrasound.
    Because of hospital waiting lists, most people have to wait several weeks before receiving the treatment they need. Unfortunately this wait is often spent in bed or inactive for【W13】______of doing further damage to the back. It has been estimated that for every day an injured muscle is rested it loses at least one per cent of its【W14】______. Stay in bed for two or three weeks and it will be far【W15】______to rebuild a damaged muscle.
【W10】
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答案adopting
解析 此处意为“花时间适应背疼的情况”，spend后接doing形式。故答案为adopting。
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