The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is plagues (瘟疫) that flesh receives. The most widespread fallacy (謬誤) of all is that colds are caused by cold. They are not. They are caused by viruses passing on from person to person. You catch a cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one.
If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them forever. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
　　During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches (戰(zhàn)壕) cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds. In the Second World War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp (奧斯維辛集中營), naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
　　At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themselves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themselves to be dipped with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercised in the rain until close to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his nose.
　　If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold viruses to be passed on.
　　No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killer pills such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms.
小題1:How many examples are offered by the writer to support his argument?
A．4 B．5 C．6 D．3
小題2:Which of the following does not agree with the chosen passage?
A．The Eskimos do not suffer from colds all the time.
B．Colds are not caused by cold.
C．People suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors.
D．A person may catch a cold by touching someone who already has one.
小題3:Arctic explorers may catch colds when _______.
A．they are working in the isolated arctic regions
B．they are writing reports in terribly cold weather
C．they are free from work in the isolated arctic regions
D．they are coming into touch again with the outside world
小題4:Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Research Unit _______.
A．suffered a lot B．never caught colds
C．often caught colds D．became very strong
小題5:The passage mainly discusses _______.
A．the experiments on the common colds
B．the fallacy about the common cold
C．the reason and the way people catch colds
D．the continued spread of common colds

小題1:B
小題2:C
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:C
文章主要討論的是人們患感冒的原因，主要是因?yàn)椴《靖腥尽?br />小題1:B 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第二段舉了兩個(gè)例子，第三段舉了兩個(gè)例子，第四段舉了一個(gè)例子，共5個(gè)。B正確。
小題2:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。文章第二段提及愛斯基摩人很少感冒。第一段中告訴我們感冒并不是由寒冷引起的。C的說法是錯(cuò)誤的，人們感冒就是因?yàn)槿藗兿矚g帶著房子里面。實(shí)際上人們感冒是因?yàn)椴《靖腥尽９蔆符合要求。
小題3:D 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第二段2,3,4行And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes說明D正確。
小題4:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第四段2,3,4行內(nèi)容可知他們受了很多苦，故A正確。
小題5:C 主旨大意題。文章主要討論的是人們患感冒的原因，主要是因?yàn)椴《靖腥尽?/div>
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