1．If you've been married to the world's loudest snorer（打鼾者） for nearly four decades，you're either a saint（圣人） or you're deaf．
Julie Switzer is a little of both．On July 4，the 61-year-old British homemaker will celebrate her 40th anniversary with her husband Mel，a taxi driver whose snoring has been measured at 92.5decibels-louder than a police siren．
Until he found a treatment，flight attendants would ask him not to sleep on planes．Eight of his neighbors sold their homes in one 10-year period．Only his wife stood by his side．
"My wife and I love each other，"he says．"And she is deaf in one ear．"
Julie's condition had no connection to her husband's loud snoring．But even with decreasing hearing，she found it hard to sleep-and though to get up each day to get their two boys off to school．"I just thought most men sound like an electric saw（电锯） in the bedroom，"she says．
After two decades of sleeplessness，Julie entered Mel in a local contest，sponsored by a British newspaper in 1984，to find the loudest snoring husband in the United Kingdom．Until then，Mel had not realized the scope of his snore．
The contest turned out to be the best thing she ever did．In one brave stroke，Julie turned her husband into an international celebrity（名人）．Suddenly，she and Mel were flying to Japan，so that doctors could measure his snoring on national TV．
"I guess there are better reasons to be famous，"Mel says．"But if people are sending you to Tokyo，why fight it？"
The folks at Guinness were quick to contact him，and all the attention brought hundreds of would-be remedies-including one that finally worked．
About four years ago，New York businessman Robert Rose gave Mel a Chinese herbal concoction（草药） that he now markets throughout North America as Y-snore．
Y-snore changed the Switzers'life．Just a few drops in the nose and Mel is silent as a lamb．Finally，a peaceful night for his wife．
68．Julie Switzer is considered somewhat a saint becauseB．
A．she has been an excellent homemaker all the time
B．she tolerated the loudest snoring in the world for nearly 40years
C．she has been married to Mel for 40years
D．she turned a deaf ear to her husband's snoring
69．What did Julie think of her husband's snoring before she entered him in a local contest？D
A．She thought it was as loud as a police siren．
B．She felt bored and extremely angry at him．
C．She was anxious to find a cure for her husband's snoring．
D．She thought it was just a normal phenomenon．
70．Entering her husband in the snoring contest was the best thing Julie ever did becauseA．
A．Mel became a famous person as a result of the contest
B．Mel became rich after winning the first prize
C．she began to know how loud her husband's snoring was
D．she managed to prove to the world that her husband was a brave man
71．According to what is said in the passage，Y-snore isC．
A．an interesting question Robert Ross asked Mel
B．a Japanese medical instrument that Mel bought in Japan
C．a kind of medical that stops snoring effectively
D．the name of a Chinese drugstore that can be found in North America．
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