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【題目】For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.

His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks. After the first week, Harry's parents took him to hospital, but it took another week for the doctors to cure his attack.

Harry, who is now back at school, described what happened to him.

“When I began to hiccup, I drank a glass of water but that didn't do any good. That evening I had hiccups every four seconds. We tried everything to stop them. I held my breath and drank cold drinks. My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either.”

After a week of sleepless nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray of his chest but they couldn't find anything wrong.

“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”

Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.

【1】Harry's hiccups lasted ____.

A. a week B. fourteen days

C. twenty-eight days D. one month

【2】His hiccups started after he ____.

A. drank a glass of water B. went to hospital

C. ate an Indian meal D. finished his homework

【3】His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.

A. hiccupped for four seconds

B. held his breath

C. hiccupped at night

D. couldn't stop hiccupping

【4】His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.

A. gave him some medicine

B. took an X-ray of his chest

C. gave him a shock

D. let him drink cold drinks

【5】What does “shock” in this passage mean？

A.震驚 B. 休克 C. 噴嚏 D. 哈欠

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】C

【3】D

【4】A

【5】A

【解析】

試題分析：打嗝是很常見的生理現(xiàn)象。本文向我們講述了這樣一個小故事：哈利從某一個周日開始打嗝，日夜不停地持續(xù)了兩個星期。父母將他送到醫(yī)院，大夫花了一個星期的時間才將其治愈。短文最后說，哈利是幸運的，因為世界記錄保持者，查利斯打嗝時間長達六十八年，并且最終也沒有查明他打嗝的原因。

【1】B細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文“His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks.”的描述可知，他的打嗝持續(xù)了十四天。故應(yīng)選B。

【2】C細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文“His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time”的描述可知，他的打嗝開始于一頓飯。結(jié)合選項可知應(yīng)選C。

【3】D細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文描述可知，他的父母在嘗試各種方法止住打嗝無效后,決定帶他去醫(yī)院。結(jié)合選項可知應(yīng)選D。

【4】A細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”的描述可知，醫(yī)生給了藥后的一個星期，他的打嗝止住了。結(jié)合選項可知應(yīng)選A。

【5】A詞義猜測題。根據(jù)短文“My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn’t work either.”的描述并結(jié)合常識可知，打嗝的人在猛地受驚后往往會止住。結(jié)合選項可知應(yīng)選A。