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 fo
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. But when the sneezes continued fo
admin
2011-01-21
39
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, 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 the world over 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 con- scious 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、there are unwanted things in their noses
答案
B
解析
在最后一段中“nature”作为关键词,是判断本题的重要依据。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/fADsFFFM
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
Recentresearchhadclaimedthatanexcessofpositiveions(离子)intheaircanhaveanill-effectonpeople’sphysicalorpsychol
Inthepast,theParkServicefocusedonmakingthebigscenicparksmore【C1】______andcomfortablefortourists.Roadswerepave
PoliceinthepopularresortcityVirginiaBeachrecentlybeganoperatingvideosurveillancecameraswithcontroversialfacerec
Amongtheraftofbooks,articles,jokes,romanticcomedies,self-helpguidesandotherwritingsdiscussingmarriage,somefamil
ReadtheparagraphsontheJapanesemanagement.ForQuestions61to65,matchthenumberofeachparagraphtooneofthetopic
Thatcherismis,byThatcher’sreckoning,onlyhalfwaycompleted.Uponcomingtopowerin1979,shereducedincometaxes(thetop
"Nowwe’remorethanhalfway;onlytwomilesawayfromthetavern,"saidthedriver."I’mgladofthat!"answeredthestran
"Nowwe’remorethanhalfway;onlytwomilesawayfromthetavern,"saidthedriver."I’mgladofthat!"answeredthestran
Americaischangingitseatinghabits.【C1】______medicalevidencemountsthatweare【C2】______aboutwhatweeat,consumingaheal
Americaischangingitseatinghabits.【C1】______medicalevidencemountsthatweare【C2】______aboutwhatweeat,consumingaheal
随机试题
组织的部门化
甲建筑公司因建楼急需水泥,同时向A、B、C三家水泥厂发出函电。函电中称:“我公司急需标号为150型号的水泥100吨,如贵厂有货,请速来函电,我公司愿派人前往购买。”三家水泥厂收到甲公司函电后,先后向甲回复了函电,在回函中告知他们备有现货,且告知了水泥价格。
A.近侧指间关节不能主动屈曲B.远侧指间关节不能主动屈曲C.掌指关节不能主动屈曲D.两个指间关节均不能主动屈曲E.两个指间关节和掌指关节均不能主动屈曲男性,25岁,左中指检查发现指浅屈肌腱断裂
胃溃疡最少见的并发症是
A公司将全部信息技术只能外包给专门的应用软件服务提供商,注册会计师获取了服务机构注册会计师对服务机构内部控制有效性出具的报告,注册会计师在评价该报告的时候需要考虑的因素有()。
某组织在申请质量管理体系认证前,编制了质量手册,确定了企业产品标准和有关程序,收集了相关法规,明确了认证的依据,对文件记录实行了电子化管理并对某些有关ISO9000族标准的问题进行了学习讨论。关于标准之间的相互关系,正确的有()。
有声而无同定语义的语言指的是()。
中国国际旅行社总社成立于1949年。()
Whatdoesthemanproposetodofirst?
A、Togosightseeing.B、Tohavemeetings.C、Topromoteanewchampagne.D、Tojoininatrainingprogram.B选项均是动词不定式,一般可能问打算或者目的。女
最新回复
(
0
)