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　　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 lunchtime 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

答案：1．B;2．C;3．D;4．A;5．A;
解析：

(1)

由文中第二段“His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and continued day and night for two weeks．”一句可知His hiccups lasted fourteen days．

(2)

標(biāo)題下的那句話對此題有很大的啟示作用．亨利是因?yàn)槌粤薎ndian food才開始打嗝的．

(3)

去醫(yī)院的原因應(yīng)該是不停地打嗝，其它選項(xiàng)提供的理由不充分，也不全面．

(4)

亨利服藥一周后痊愈，其它方法均無效．

(5)

　　可用“驚嚇”治療打嗝．文中提到“My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn't work either．”

　　打嗝是很常見的生理現(xiàn)象．本文向我們講述了這樣一個(gè)小故事：哈利從某一個(gè)周日開始打嗝，日夜不停地持續(xù)了兩個(gè)星期．父母將他送到醫(yī)院，大夫花了一個(gè)星期的時(shí)間才將其治愈．短文最后說，哈利是幸運(yùn)的，因?yàn)槭澜缬涗洷３终撸槔勾蜞脮r(shí)間長達(dá)六十八年，并且最終也沒有查明他打嗝的原因．


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