题目内容
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
阅读快车系列答案短文选词填空（共10小题，计10分）
but、become、go、and、wok、meet、wake、watch、copy、wear、lie、do |
Mr Beckman 1. in a company for nearly twenty years. His job is 2. all the documents the manger writes. His office is on the first floor and the light in it is always poor unless it’s fine. So his sight 3. shorter several years ago. He has to wear a pair of glasses when he’s working. Of course, it brought him a lot of trouble. He can’t see anything clearly without glasses. Sometimes he can’t recognize his wife when they 4. with each other in the street.
The man looked tired this evening. After supper he 5. to bed while his family 6. TV. Mrs. Beckman didn’t turn off the television until the interesting TV play was over. She came into their bedroom in the dark at half past ten. As soon as she 7._ down, there was a great noise under the bed. She understood a mouse came in again. She jumped off and had to turn on the light and tried to beat it with a stick. She made some noise and it made her husband 8.up.
“You have never worn glasses when you were sleeping before,” the woman said in surprise. “But why___you ___9._ them this time?”
“Well,dear,” said the man. “I had a lot of dreams last night. I saw my late parents, but I couldn’t see them clearly. So I have 10. so!”
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。每词仅用一次，每空一词。
abroad discuss memory beside surprise |
1.A new school will be built _____ the river next year.
2.My desk-mate has an excellent _____ for telephone numbers.
3.Today some students choose to study _____ for further education.
4.We were _____ to see little Tommy run faster than big John in the race.
5.We _____ the differences between Britain and the US in the English class yesterday.