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.
小題1:Harry’s hiccups lasted ____.
A．a(chǎn) weekB．fourteen daysC．twenty-eight daysD．one month
小題2:His hiccups started after he ____.
A．drank a glass of waterB．went to hospital
C．a(chǎn)te an Indian mealD．finished his homework
小題3:His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.
A．hiccupped for four secondsB．held his breath
C．hiccupped at nightD．couldn’t stop hiccupping
小題4:His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.
A．gave him some medicineB．took an X-ray of his chest
C．gave him a shockD．let him drink cold drinks
小題5:What does “shock” in this passage mean？
A．震驚B．休克C．噴嚏D．哈欠

小題1:B
小題1:C
小題1:D
小題1:A
小題1:A

小題1:根據(jù)His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks.可知他的打嗝持續(xù)了十四天,故選B
小題1:根據(jù)His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time 描述,可知他的打嗝開始于一頓飯,故選C
小題1:根據(jù)短文描述,可知他的父母在嘗試各種方法無效后,決定帶他去醫(yī)院,故選D
小題1:根據(jù)“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”
描述,可知選A
小題1:根據(jù)My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn’t work either.”結(jié)合常識可知打嗝的人在猛地受驚后往往會止住,故選A
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