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
2011-03-01
65
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 world-wide 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 problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery for, 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, be 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 all 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.
According to scientists, people sneeze because ______.
选项
A、they are ill
B、to sneeze is human nature
C、they do not need any conscious help
D、they do not like their noses
答案
B
解析
细节题。答案信息对应于文章倒数第二句:...this being nature’s clever way…,并且前面一句中也提到了has to be done、后面一句中又提到了nature一词,说明打喷嚏是一种自然行为,选[B] 。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/8qkd777K
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
Readthefollowingarticleinwhichfivewomentalkedabouttheirslimmingfailure.Forquestions61to65,matchnameofeachw
Sometimeago,Idiscoveredthatoneofthechairsinmyfronthallhadabrokenleg.Ididn’tforeseeanygreatdifficultyin
Youareallowed40minutestowriteacompositionofabout150wordsaboutWaterShortage.Takethefollowingpointsasreferen
Whatprobablyistherelationshipbetweenthetwospeakers?
Whendoesthisconversationmostprobablytakeplace?
Thereseemsnevertohavebeenacivilizationwithouttoys,butwhenandhowtheydevelopedisunknown.Theyprobablycameabout
Therewasonethoughtthatairpollutionaffectedonlytheareaimmediatelyaroundlargecitieswithfactoriesandheavyautomob
Althoughonemightnotthinksofromsomeofthecriticismofit,advertisingisessentialtothekindofsocietyinwhichpeopl
GlynisWangIfirstpiledonthepoundswhenIwaspregnantandIcouldn’tlosethemafterwards.ThenIjoinedaslimmingcl
随机试题
A.抑制胆碱酯酶活性B.高温引起的人体体温调节功能失调,体内热量过度积蓄C.高铁血红蛋白蓄积D.碳氧血红蛋白蓄积E.迷走神经过度兴奋一氧化碳中毒的发病机制是
A.适当磨改人工牙的舌面B.适当磨改人工牙的切缘舌侧C.适当磨改人工牙的邻面轴面角D.适当磨改人工牙的颈缘E.适当调整人工牙的轴向倾斜人工牙的宽窄、长短基本合适,排牙时还应注意
关于拘传和传唤两者区别的说法,下列哪一选项是错误的?
某施工合同约定,现场主导施工机械一台,由承包人租得,台班单价为200元/台班,租赁费100元/天,人工工资为50元/工日,窝工补贴20元/工日,以人工费和机械费为基数的综合费率为30%。在施工过程中,发生了如下事件:①遇异常恶劣天气导致停工2天,人员窝工3
工程建设项目不符合规定的范围和标准的小规模的建筑材料、建筑构配件和设备的采购的三种形式有( )。
施工企业购买材料设备后交付承运人运输,未按约定给付承运费用时,承运人有权扣留足以清偿其所欠运费的货物,承运人行使的是()。
名义利率与实际利率的关系是:名义利率越(),计息周期越(),则实际利率与名义利率的差异就越()。
我至今还记得那一晚被昏黄的灯光和烟雾________着的人们一声声因输赢而________着的喜悦或者痛苦的叫声。填入画横线部分最恰当的一项是:
齐某与李某是同学。因李某住房困难,2000年齐某将自己继承的3间房屋借给李某居住,2005年李某将其中两间出租给别人用于商业经营,月租金800元,齐某得知这一情况后,遂向李某提出收回出借的3问房。李某以自己居住多年、多次翻修、长期管理为由拒绝返还。李某并认
Scientistsrequireobservabledata,not(i)______,tosupportahypothesis;soundscienceisgroundedin(ii)______resultsrathe
最新回复
(
0
)