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
2016-06-24
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.
Dr. Kanner cured the girl by______.
选项
A、using Aristotle’s method
B、giving her psychological treatment
C、practicing superstition
D、treating her tuberculosis
答案
B
解析
此题考查对文意的理解。从第四段中“卡纳博士用现代心理学的知识对此做出解释,然后开始医治这个小女孩”可知选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.kaotiyun.com/show/VnVd777K
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
TheGovernmenthasalmostdoubleditsspendingoncomputereducationinschools.Mr.WilliamShelton,juniorEducationMinister,
Afterlunch,withouttheirparents’【C1】______,thetwoboyssetoff’toexplorethebeachwhichbeyondtheheadland(岬).Theyhad
Manystudentsfindtheexperienceofattendinguniversitylecturestobeaconfusingandfrustratingexperience.Thelecturersp
Manystudentsfindtheexperienceofattendinguniversitylecturestobeaconfusingandfrustratingexperience.Thelecturersp
Futuristslovecomputers.Afterall,40yearsagoelectronicdigitalcomputersdidn’texist;todaymicrochipsastinyasababy’s
Futuristslovecomputers.Afterall,40yearsagoelectronicdigitalcomputersdidn’texist;todaymicrochipsastinyasababy’s
Thepotentialofcomputersforincreasingthecontroloforganizationsorsocietyovertheirmembersandforinvadingtheprivac
TheAmericanneedtoownthingsispartlytheresultofmassadvertising,【C1】______urgesconsumerstodiscardlastyear’scaro
TheAmericanneedtoownthingsispartlytheresultofmassadvertising,【C1】______urgesconsumerstodiscardlastyear’scaro
随机试题
超声检查眼异物的常用方法是
什么是首次检定?其对象和目的是什么?
下列选项中属于短期资金市场的是()。
混合结构房屋静力计算方案分类的主要依据是:
在国际市场预测中,一般进行产品出口和进口替代分析,可通过项目产出物与有代表性的国外同类产品相对比进行。对比的内容包括()。
运行机车上必须安装的“三项设备”是指()。
企业按规定的退税率计算的出口货物的当期免抵税额,应借记的明细科目是()。
在公安赔偿中,侵犯公民人身自由的,每日赔偿金按照国家上年度职工( )计算。
在一起道路交通事故案处理中,某公安局交警部门对损害赔偿进行了调解,但其中一方当事人对调解结果不满意。其可以依法向上一级公安交警部门提起行政复议,上一级公安交警部门应当依法予以受理。()
Hewritesinavery______manner;there’remanymistakesalmostineverypage.
最新回复
(
0
)