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
81
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.
When a person sneezes, we say "God bless you "because______.
选项
A、it’s a tradition
B、the person is possessed of an evil spirit
C、the person is ill
D、God will bless those who sneeze
答案
A
解析
此题考查对段落的理解和对作者观点的归纳。从第六段的最后一句话中可以得出作者的看法:“世界各地的人们仍然继续着‘愿上帝保佑你’或者与之类似的说法。”
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/6djd777K
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
Wheredoesthewomanwork?
StandardEnglishisthevarietyofEnglishwhichisusuallyusedinprintandwhichisnormallytaughtinschoolsandtonon-nat
Whatisthetopicofthisconversation?
Thehistoricallyhothousingmarketwillinevitablyslow,withapossibledeclineinhomepricesandconsumerspending.Speak
OneafternooninJanuary1989,SusanSharp,43,andher8-year-oldson,David,werewalkinghard【C1】______anicyparkinglot,【C2
GenerationsofAmericanshavebeenbrought【C1】______tobelievethatagoodbreakfastisimportantforhealth.Eatingbreakfasta
Whatistheman’sfeelingabouthispresentjob?
WhendidDr.SmitharriveinIndia?
Christmaswasa【C1】______affair,whenIgrewup.TherewerejustmyparentsandI.Ivowed【C2】______somedayI’dmarryandhave
InEnglandrecentlythreeforeigngentlemenapproachedabusstop.Theystudiedtheinformationonthesignattachedtotheconc
随机试题
行动研究
从宪法的角度看,美国州政府与地方政府的关系具有单一制的性质,故被有的学者称为()
商品购进总额不包括()
患者,男性,头顶部伤口,换药后宜用哪种包扎方法
关于融资租赁的说法,正确的是()。
起重机机械的主要参数()。
下列说法中正确的是()。
设向量组(I):b1,…,br能由向量组(Ⅱ):a1,…,as线性表示为(b1,…,br)=(1,…,as)K,其中K为s×r矩阵,且向量组(Ⅱ)线性无关。证明向量组(Ⅱ)线性无关的充分必要条件是矩阵K的秩r(K)=r。
在时间和数值上都是连续的信号的通信称为(42)。对模拟信号进行一次测量称为(43)。
ThegovernmentofUKislaunchingaprogramaimingathelpingmorefamiliesbalancetheirworkandhomelives.Therighttoask
最新回复
(
0
)