For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fi

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

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小题1:B小题1:C小题1:D小题1:A小题1:A

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小题1:根据His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks.可知他的打嗝持续了十四天,故选B小题1:根据His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time 描述,可知他的打嗝开始于一顿饭,故选C小题1:根据短文描述,可知他的父母在尝试各种方法无效后,决定带他去医院,故选D小题1:根据“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,可知选A小题1:根据My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn’t work either.”结合常识可知打嗝的人在猛地受惊后往往会止住,故选A

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