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.

1.Harry's hiccups lasted ____.

A.a week B.fourteen days

C.twenty-eight days D.one month

2.His hiccups started after he ____.

A.drank a glass of water B.went to hospital

C.ate an Indian meal D.finished his homework

3.His parents decided to take him to hospital when he ____.

A.hiccupped for four seconds

B.held his breath

C.hiccupped at night

D.couldn't stop hiccupping

4.His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor ____.

A.gave him some medicine

B.took an X-ray of his chest

C.gave him a shock

D.let him drink cold drinks

5.What does “shock” in this passage mean?

A.震惊 B.休克 C.喷嚏 D.哈欠

The King lived a small house near New York with their child . Sometimes Mr King came back from work very late. When his wife and the child were asleep, he opened the front door of his house with his key and came in very quietly.

But one night when he was coming home late, he lost his key. So when he reached his house , he rang the bell. Nothing happened. He rang it again. Again nothing happened. Nobody moved inside the house. Mr King knocked at the bedroom window. He spoke to his wife, he shouted, but she didn’t wake up. At last he stopped and thought for a minute. Then he began to speak like a small child. “Mum,” he said, “I want to go to the toilet.” He spoke quietly, but at once Mrs King woke up. Then he spoke to her, and she opened the door for him.

1.When Mr King came back very late from work and his wife was asleep, he usually came into his house .

A.with his wife’s help

B.by knocking at the door

C.with his child’s help

D.by opening the door with his key

2.One night when he found his key lost, he first .

A.spoke to his wife

B.shouted at his wife

C.rang the bell

D.knocked at the bedroom window

3.Mrs King woke up because .

A.she heard the sound of the bell

B.she heard Mr King’s voice

C.she heard a knock at the door

D.she heard the voice “mum” like her child’s

4.Like a small child, Mr King spoke to his sleeping wife .

A.loudly B.in a low voice

C.angrily D.with tears in his eyes

5.At last .

A.Mrs King opened the door for Mr King

B.his child opened the door for Mr King

C.Mr King opened the door by force

D.Mr King opened the door with his wife’s key

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