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It all started with an Indian, meal and ended in hospital.
For many people the subject(主题)of hiccups is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fif-teen-year-old
schoolboy from Birmingham , it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunchtime and continued(继续)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(治愈)his attack(发作).
Harry described(描述)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(秒). 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(无眠的)nights,he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray(射线)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 me
dicine worked completely(完全地)and my hiccups stopped. "
Harry was very lucky, The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Smith , who
hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.
1.Harry,s hiccups lasted(持续) .
A. a week
B. fourteen days
C. twenty-eight days
D. one month
2.His hiccups started after he .
A. went to hospital
B. drank a glass of water
C. finished his homework
D. ate an Indian meal
3.His parents decided to take him to hospital when he .
A. couldn't stop hiccupping
B. hiccupped at night
C. held his breath
D. hiccupped for four seconds
4.His hiccups completely stopped one week after the doctor .
A. let him drink cold drinks
B. gave him a shock
C. took an X-ray of -his chest
D. gave him some medicine
5.What does the underlined word"shock"in this passage mean?
A. 哈欠
B. 休克
C. 喷嚏
D. 震惊
