60. A. many B. a lot C. lot of D. much
II. Fill in the blank with a suitable word in the box.
You have a headache and you sneeze and cough. Your (61) is all stuffed up, and it keeps running, so you have to blow it every few minutes. You know by these (62) that you have a cold, and you feel completely (63) .
Everyone suffers (64) the common cold at some time or other. It isn’t a serious (65) , but over a billion 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 (66) , make your head less intense, and stop your nose (67) for a while. However, it can’t cure your cold. So far, there is no (68) 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 (69) to prevent and treat colds. Some people think that if you eat a lot of onions, you won’t catch cold. (70) say that you should avoid getting wet and chilled, or you will catch cold. However, this is apparently not so.
