首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought’it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought’it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for
admin
2015-08-14
52
问题
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought’it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl was still sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention.
Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from"put a clothes pin on her nose"to "have her stand on her head"poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally, she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr. Leo Kanner, one of the world’ s top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling(难以理解的)problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, he said, a view which Aristotle, some 3, 000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily.
Dr. Kanner simply gave a modern psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly.
"Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to an ex-sneezer, " he reported.
Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezes—a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over the world still continue the custom with the traditional, "God bless you" or its equivalent.
When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any conscious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being nature’ s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.
The girl sneezed continuously because she______.
选项
A、was ill
B、was mentally ill
C、had heavy mental burden
D、had attracted world-wide attention
答案
C
解析
详见第五段的语义解释,“为她制定了更好的学业计划和职业规划,并向她保证她不会得肺结核,她就马上停止了打喷嚏”。说明小女孩的心理负担很重。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/2djd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语三级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语三级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Wherearethespeakers?
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
Thehistoricallyhothousingmarketwillinevitablyslow,withapossibledeclineinhomepricesandconsumerspending.Speak
Christmaswasa【C1】______affair,whenIgrewup.TherewerejustmyparentsandI.Ivowed【C2】______somedayI’dmarryandhave
Incontrast,anFrancisco【C1】______Japanofitscolonialempireandarmed【C2】______butsoughttocultivatereform【C3】______then
Howdidthewomandointhedrivingtest?
InEnglandrecentlythreeforeigngentlemenapproachedabusstop.Theystudiedtheinformationonthesignattachedtotheconc
Drunkendriving—sometimescalledAmerica’ssociallyacceptedformofmurder—asbecomeanationalepidemic.Everyhourofeveryd
Howmanycoursesdidthewomantakelastsemester?
Howdidthewomandointhedrivingtest?
随机试题
“纸上学来终觉浅,绝知此事要躬行”这句话蕴含的哲理是()
A.胀痛B.刺痛C.灼痛D.绞痛E.隐痛
李某(15周岁)与王某(17周岁)二人将同村的女青年小林骗到城里后,先后对小林实施了强奸并关押起来迫使其卖淫接客,挣到钱后二人瓜分。对于李某和于某的行为,下列说法正确的是:()
在软土地区进行岩土工程勘察,宜采用()的原位测试方法。
工程项目的特征是()
多层砖砌体房屋现浇混凝土圈梁截面高度构造要求不应小于()mm。
甲公司2006年5月31日银行存款日记账的账面余额为709200元,银行转来的对账单上的余额为699600元,经逐笔核对,发现有以下未达账项:①5月28日,公司委托银行代收款项15000元,银行已经收妥入账,公司尚未接到银行的收款通知,尚未记账;
除聪慧性因素外,16PF的其他因素都是按()记分的。
心理测验的测题编写时,题目的来源可以是()。
TCP是互联网中的(7)协议,使用(8)次握手协议建立连接。当主动方发出SYN连接请求后,等待对方回答(9)。这种建立连接的方法可以防止(10)。TCP使用的流量控制协议是(11)。
最新回复
(
0
)