Section A Reading in the Context
Read the following passage with ten missing words．Learn to guess the meanings of them from the context and then select one word for each blank from the list of choices given in a word bank following the passage．Each word can be used only once．
Mind-based therapy programs may help ease chronic back pain，new research suggests．
Patients who took part in such programs were more____1__to have noticeable and lasting improvements in back pain than those who stuck to their usual routines，investigators found．
Both of the____2__tested in the study—mindfulness-based stress reduction（MBSR）and cognitive（认知的）behavioral therapy（CBT）—can be helpful for people who haven’t____3__from other therapies，said lead author Daniel Cherkin，of the Group Health Research Institute in Seattle．
“Maybe it’ll make a difference for them，”he told Reuters Health．
MBSR attempts to increase a person’s attention to thoughts，emotions and____4__in the moment through yoga and meditation，the researchers explain in the Journal of the American Medical Association．CBT educates people about pain and its relation to reactions and activities．CBT also____5__instructions and tools to cope with pain．
While CBT is known to be____6__for chronic pain and is recommended for lower back pain，before now only one other study had looked at MBSR for chronic low back pain，the researchers say．
Cherkin and colleagues____7__assigned 342 adults with chronic low back pain to one of three groups．The pain had no known cause and had lasted for at least three months．
One group continued____8__they were doing to manage their pain．A second group also received MBSR and a third took part in CBT．
Participants in the two mind-body therapy groups were offered eight weekly two-hour group sessions．The MBSR group was also offered a six-hour retreat．
Overall，about 54 percent____9___six or more sessions．After six months，there was“meaningful improvement”in about 61 percent of the MBSR group，58 percent of the CBT group and 44 percent of the usual care group．Patients with meaningful improvement were___10__less disabled，the report suggests．
Likewise，about 44 percent of the MBSR group and 45 percent of the CBT group ended up with remarkable reductions in the bothersomeness of their pain，compared to 27 percent of the usual care group．
