Question

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

Answer 1

1.B

2.C

3.D

4.A

5.A

【解析】

试题分析：打嗝是很常见的生理现象。本文向我们讲述了这样一个小故事：哈利从某一个周日开始打嗝，日夜不停地持续了两个星期。父母将他送到医院，大夫花了一个星期的时间才将其治愈。短文最后说，哈利是幸运的，因为世界记录保持者，查利斯打嗝时间长达六十八年，并且最终也没有查明他打嗝的原因。

1.B细节理解题。根据短文“His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued day and night for two weeks.”的描述可知，他的打嗝持续了十四天。故应选B。

2.C细节理解题。根据短文“His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time”的描述可知，他的打嗝开始于一顿饭。结合选项可知应选C。

3.D细节理解题。根据短文描述可知，他的父母在尝试各种方法止住打嗝无效后,决定带他去医院。结合选项可知应选D。

4.A细节理解题。根据短文“They gave me some medicine and my hiccups slowed down, but it was another week before the medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”的描述可知，医生给了药后的一个星期，他的打嗝止住了。结合选项可知应选A。

5.A词义猜测题。根据短文“My father even tried to give me a shock but that didn’t work either.”的描述并结合常识可知，打嗝的人在猛地受惊后往往会止住。结合选项可知应选A。

考点：日常生活类短文阅读。

考点分析： 考点1：日常生活类

日常生活类阅读理解：

    阅读能力是中学生学习英语应具备的一种基本能力。学习英语的一个重要目的在于获取信息。通过阅读这一重要手段，我们可以大量地获取知识，拓展知识面，还可以增强语感，培养敏捷的思维能力。

阅读理解也是各地中考试题的必考题型之一，在中考试题中占有较大比例，主要考查学生通过文字获取信息的能力。在中考中，阅读的篇数一般是三到四篇，选材范围越来越广，除故事、幽默、人物轶事外，科普性文章也多了起来。体裁也趋于多样化，有记叙文、说明文、应用文等。还要求学生能理解及解释图表多提供的简单信息等。三四篇短文中有的难度跨度较大，以便拉开档次，体现选拔功能。并且扩大了选材范围，主要考查考生阅读所给材料，理解其中词语、句子或片段含义的能力。有时涉及对全文意思和篇章结构的理解，对一些问题作出推理和判断。阅读理解的考核中包括了对词汇、语法等语言知识的考查，要求学生具备一定的背景知识、各种常识、科普知识和一定的分析及逻辑推理能力；要求学生具有归纳段落大意、中心思想的能力。测试的方向由时间、地点、身份、人物等一些细节问题，改为测试对全文整体意义的理解程度；由考查短文的表层现象改为考对文章深层含义的理解和逻辑推断能力。另外，任务型阅读形式灵活多样，内容丰富多彩，联系实际，易考查学生的灵活运用能力和对语言的综合运用能力。在中考中占30-40分。

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