高考英语阅读系列（7）
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Thousands of remedies have been propod for hiccups, each with its enthusiastic backers. Some em to work, others do not. Rearch into known cas indicates that if a sufferer firmly believes a particular treatment will succeed, more often than not it does. So doctors have been led to the conclusion that the cure for hiccups is at least partly psychological.
One widely held belief is that a sharp fright will end a troublesome bout of hiccups, but many people prefer just waiting for them to go away as this "cure" is often wor than the ailment itlf.
Between 1948 and 1956 Jack 0'Leary,an American, reckoned he hiccuped 160 million times. He tried 60,000 remedies, all in vain. Finally, in desperation, he prayed to St. Jude, patron of hopeless caus. His hiccuping stopped.
Another victim was Heinz Icke,a 55-year-old British plumber, who hiccuped for eight months after an operation in November 1973. Suggestions poured in to him from all over the world. He tried them all, without success. Doctors, alarmed by his failing strength, operated a-gain. Still the hiccups went on.
Eventually, in despair,Heinz drank a "cret" herbal mixture nt by an anonymous donor. By the evening of that day his hiccups had gone. Was it the mixture, or his faith in it, that cured him? As yet, no one can say.
1. Doctors believe that the cure for hiccups is at least partly psychological becau _____.
A) St. Jude, patron of hopeless caus, did help Jack O'Leary stop his hiccuping
B) some psychological treatments did work effectively
C) evidence shows that a particular treatment in which a sufferer strongly believes will
often succeed
D) "cret" herbal mixtures could produce a miraculous effect on sufferers
Key：C。第一段第二句“Rearch into known cas indicates…”一句，正是C）项表明的内容。
2. The word "backers" in the first ntence means _____.
A) "urs" B) "advocates" C) "supporters" D) "followers"
Key：C。“back”用作动词，表示“支持（= support）”之意，加上后缀“er”，作“支持者”解。
3. Which of the following is NOT true?
A) Though a sharp fright is widely believed to be able to cure hiccups, many people shy away from this "cure. "
B) Jack O'Leary managed to stop his hiccups after he tried 60,000 remedies.
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C) Heinz's hiccups started in 1973 after an operation.
北岛诗 D) It was a "cret" herbal mixture that finally cured Heinz's hiccups.
Key：B。见第三段第二句“He tried 60,000 remedies, all in vain”。“in vain”为“徒劳”之意，说明他所尝试的各种疗法均未能奏效。故B）项与事实不符。
产品验收单模板4. It can be inferred from the passage that the best cure for hiccups _____.
A) has already been found B) is yet to be found
C) will never be found D) is from a psychologist
Key：B。本文最后一句“As yet，no one can say”与B）项含义相符。
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It remains to be en whether the rerves of raw materials would be sufficient to supply a world economy which would have grown by 500 per cent. South-East Asia alone would have an energy consumption five times greater than that of Western Europe in 1970. Incidentally, if the underdeveloped countries started using up petrol at the same rat
e as the industrialid areas, then world rerves would already be exhausted by 1985.
All this only goes to show just how important it is to t up a plan to conrve and divide up fairly natural resources on a world-wide scale.
This is a matter of life and death becau world population is exploding at an incredible rate. By the middle of the next century population will expand every year by as much as it did in the first 1500 years after Christ. In the southern, poor, parts of the globe, the figures are enough to make your hair stand on end. Even supposing that steps are taken to stabili world population in the next fifty years, the number of inhabitants per square kilometre will increa by from 4 in the United States to 140 in South-East Asia. What can we do about it?
In the first hypothesis we do nothing. By the year 2000, the southern parts of the world would then have a population greater than the total world population today. Calcutta would have 60 million inhabitants. It is unthinkable.
Alternatively, we could start acting right now to bring births under control within fifteen years so that population levels off. Even then the population in the southern areas would not stop growing for venty-five years.
5. By the year 2000 the world economy will have grown by _____.
平方厘米怎么算风靡一时的意思 A) five times B) 500 per cent C) an unknown amount D) 50 per cent
Key：C。第一段提到世界经济增长500%，纯属一种假设，而第四段仅述及至“the year 2000”时的“population increa”情况，并未谈及“economy growth”。
小水滴的诉说6. World petrol rerves will be ud up by 1985 if_____.
号令之旗 A) Western European consumption continues to expand
B) South-East Asia does not limit its consumption
C) underdeveloped countries start to u petrol at the same rate as Western Europe
水床 D) world population continues to expand
Key：C。见第一段最后一句：“…if the underdeveloped countries started using up petrol at the same rate as the industrialid areas，the world rerves would already be exhausted by 1985”。
