The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is a plague that

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 The common cold is the world's most widespread illness, which is a plague that man receives.The most widespread mistake of all is that colds are caud by cold. They are not. They are caud by virus 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 caus 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 contract 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, cold and wet, ldom caught colds.In the Second World War, prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp, naked and starved, were astonished to find that they ldom had colds.At the Common Cold Rearch Unit in England, volunteers took part in experiments in which they gave themlves to the discomforts of being cold and wet for long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bathing suits, allowed themlves to be with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in a room. Some wore wet socks all day while others exercid in the rain until clo to exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was actually dropped in his no. If then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more frequent in winter? Despite the most hard rearch, no one has yet found out the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay together indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and that makes it easier for cold virus to be pasd on.No one has yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain-killers such as aspirin, but all that they do is to relieve the symptoms.小题1:The writer offered ___ examples to support his argument.A．4B．5C．6D．3小题2:Arctic explorers may catch colds when___.A．they are working in the isolated Arctic regionsB．they are writing reports in terribly cold weatherC．they are free from work in the isolated Arctic regionsD．they are coming into touch again with the outside world小题3:Volunteers taking part in the experiments in the Common Cold Rearch Unit___.A．suffered a lotB．never caught coldsC．often caught coldsD．became very strong小题4:The passage mainly discuss___.A．the experiments on the common coldB．the fallacy about the common coldC．the reason and the way people catch coldsD．the continued spread of common colds 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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小题1:B小题1:D小题1:A小题1:C

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