【題目】 Have you ever hiccupped (打嗝）in a quiet room full of people? Have you ever hiccupped so hard that you had to stop what you were doing? The hiccups is a problem that almost everyone has experienced.

The reasons for getting hiccups

People get hiccups for some reasons. Hiccups might result from eating or drinking too much or too quickly. A sudden change in the stomach’s temperature, such as drinking hot water immediately after drinking cold water, may also cause hiccups. They may even happen because of being excited or being under a lot of stress.

Making hiccups go away

Ideas on how to stop hiccups have been created, shared, and tried for years. However, what works for one person may not work for everyone. Perhaps the most common method people use is to hold their breath for a few seconds. If this doesn’t work, you can try swallowing (吞下）hard while holding your breath. There are also some strange-sounding ways, like drinking a lot of water. Someone might even try to scare away hiccups.

Ideas for curing (治愈）hiccups often include things found in the kitchen. Some people put sweet and sour things into water. Many people believe that eating some sugar can make hiccups go away.

Award-winning method

In 2010, a young girl named Mallory Kievman couldn’t make her hiccups go away. None of the ideas that she knew worked for her. So she decided to find her own cure for hiccups. She knew that sweet and sour things were commonly used to cure hiccups, and she knew that swallowing hard could also help. She decided to use the two ideas to make a special lollipop(棒棒糖). She experimented with different things in the kitchen. After she failed many times, Mallory invented a lollipop that worked by putting water, sugar and vinegar (醋) together. She named her invention Hiccupops.

Mallory wanted to find out whether her lollipops would help others. She gave her lollipops to friends. Most of them were cured of their hiccups after eating the lollipops.

Mallory entered a competition with her lollipop and won three awards for her creative idea.

【1】Why does the writer begin the passage with the ideas in Paragraph 1?

A. To make the time of getting hiccups clear.

B. To suggest what it feels like to have hiccups.

C. To explain to us why people have trouble curing hiccups.

D. To interest us in a subject that many people have experienced.

【2】In which situation will you probably get a hiccup? .

A. You are going to take an exam without preparation.

B. You drink a bowl of soup slowly.

C. You swallow some medicine.

D. You eat a Hiccupop.

【3】The way people use most to stop hiccups is

A. holding the breath for a few seconds

B. swallowing hard while holding the breath

C. drinking a lot of water

D. eating some lollipops

【4】Which of the following is TRUE about Mallory Kievman?

A. It was not easy for her to invent her lollipops.

B. The ingredients (材料）of her lollipops aren’t easy to find.

C. Her lollipops can help everyone get away from hiccups.

D. She won three competitions with her lollipops.

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】A

【4】A

【解析】

文章講述了打嗝的原因，人們停止打嗝的方法以及Mallory Kievman發(fā)明了停止打嗝的棒棒糖并因此獲獎(jiǎng)。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù) “Have you ever hiccupped (打嗝）in a quiet room full of people? Have you ever hiccupped so hard that you had to stop what you were doing? The hiccups is a problem that almost everyone has experienced.”可知，該段針對(duì)日常生活中人們都經(jīng)歷過的打嗝來提出兩個(gè)問題，借此因此讀者對(duì)打嗝的興趣。故選D。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“They may even happen because of being excited or being under a lot of stress.”可知，興奮和壓力會(huì)導(dǎo)致打嗝，沒復(fù)習(xí)就考試會(huì)有壓力，故會(huì)導(dǎo)致打嗝。故選A。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“Perhaps the most common method people use is to hold their breath for a few seconds.”可知， 屏住呼吸幾秒鐘可以使打嗝停止。故選A。

【4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)“After she failed many times, Mallory invented a lollipop that worked by putting water, sugar and vinegar (醋) together.”可知她多次失敗，故她發(fā)明棒棒糖并不容易；A正確；根據(jù)“by putting water, sugar and vinegar (醋) together”可知，材料是水、糖和醋，這些材料是日常所用，且文中并未提及很難尋找，故B項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。根據(jù)“Most of them were cured of their hiccups after eating the lollipops.”可知，只是大部分人吃了棒棒糖后停止了打嗝，并不是所有人，故C項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。根據(jù)“Mallory entered a competition with her lollipop and won three awards for her creative idea.”可知是贏了三個(gè)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，而不是贏了三場(chǎng)比賽，故D項(xiàng)錯(cuò)誤。故選A。

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