【原创】For many people the subject of hiccups (嗝) is a joke, but for Harry Mendes, a fifteen-year-old schoolboy from Birmingham, it was something quite different.
His hiccups began one Sunday lunch time and continued 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 his attack.
Harry, who is now back at school, described 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. 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 nights, he went to hospital. The doctors took an X-ray 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 medicine worked completely and my hiccups stopped.”
Harry was very lucky. The world record holder is the American farmer Charles Osborne, who hiccupped for sixty-eight years. He stopped in 1990 at last, but nobody knows why.
阅读短文回答下列问题How long did Harry's hiccups lasted?
When did his hiccups started ?
Do we know why Harry Mendes hiccupped so long ?
Who hiccupped for the longest time?
What is Harry Mendes?
Do you enjoy reading? Here readers of your age from all over the United States recommend great books for you to read:
My favorite book is Don’t Die, My Love by Lurlene McDaniel. I love all her books, but this was the first one I read and I have to say, it is by far my favorite. It doesn’t end like other books, and I cried while reading.
I think Nancy Drew is great! Nancy is a detective who has many fantastic ideas! I love it because it’s a book from when my grandma was my age, and I can share the fun with her!
I highly recommend Skinny Bones by Barbara Park. It is funny, so please add it on your book list. You don’t want to miss out funny stories!
I would suggest by Judy Blume. It is based on(基于)real things that happened to Judy Blume. It is about a girl, Alice, who meets some girls at a new state. They become friends, make a club and meet once a week. They stop after two weeks because they all like a boy in their class and put him as number one. I think every girl should read this because it is about our growing up.
I read a book called Neela: Victory Song and it was so good I read it twice! It takes place in India(印度)in 1936 and this 12-year-old girl named Neela tries to save her father! It has lots of history in it! I also learned a lot about different cultures(文化)! The author(作者)’s name is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.According to the reader, Skinny Bones can be described as a story.
| A．sad | B．history | C．funny | D．detective |
We can learn different cultures from the book .
| A．Skinny Bones | B．Nancy Drew |
| C．Don’t Die, My Love | D．Neela: Victory Song |
In the book Nancy Drew, Nancy is .
| A．a writer | B．a doctor |
| C．a detective | D．a student |
In the passage, readers from all over the United States recommend books to read.
| A．3 | B．4 | C．5 | D．2 |
The best name of the 4th book is .
| A．My Secret` | B．Growing Trouble |
| C．Three Friends | D．Alice Learns a Lesson |
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| A．Friday | B．Saturday | C．Monday | D．Thursday |
The sunniest days were .
| A．Tuesday and Friday | B．Saturday and Tuesday |
| C．Monday and Wednesday | D．Tuesday and Wednesday |
On Sunday it would probably be the best to .
| A．go to the beach for a swim | B．stay at home and read a good book |
| C．take the dog for a walk | D．go on a picnic |
Friday, May 1st, was .
| A．rainy in the morning and in the afternoon |
| B．sunny all day |
| C．sunny in the morning and cloudy in the afternoon |
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Joan flew her kite on a day that was windy in the morning but wet in the afternoon. Joan probably did this on _________.
| A．Saturday, April 26th | B．Monday, April 28th |
| C．Tuesday, April 29th | D．Thursday, April 30th |
Do you get angry at your friends’ singing loudly while you are working? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
If you do, you need to control your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry with people can make you lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. It can never make them better. Getting angry is not a natural way to act. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is telling yourself not to be angry.
When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it. Like a baby, you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do.
·Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
·Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
·Do something different. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh!The writer wants to tell us .
| A．not to get angry | B．to work hard at school |
| C．to do more exercise | D．to help each other |
The writer thinks that if you get angry easily you will .
| A．get ill very easily | B．lose your friends |
| C．get sad easily | D．eat less |
My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals is a .
| A．story | B．book | C．picture | D．film |
My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals mainly tells us .
| A．what to read | B．how to read |
| C．how to stay cool | D．how to learn English |
When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching. Here “it” refers to .
| A．the book | B．anger | C．habit | D．the baby |
“USA? Britain? Which country is better to study in?” We often hear such discussions. As China open its door, it is a dream for many Chinese students to study abroad. They want to learn about the outside world.
It’s true that studying abroad can help students develop themselves. Their foreign language skills will be improved and it may be easier to find jobs.
But there are problems that should be considered. Language is the first. Students must spend a lot of time learning another language.
Students must also learn to live without parents’ care and deal with all kinds of things they haven’t to do before, like looking after themselves. There are reports about Chineses students abroad running into an ocean of difficulties and giving up finally. When they have to take care of themselves, it is hard for students to study well.
Finally, studying abroad brings a heavy burden to the family. For most Chinese parents, the cost of studying abroad is very high. But is it worth it?
We know that there are many famous people who have achieved success through their hard work in China. Liu Xiang is a good example. Once an American teacher invited him there, but he refused. He kept training hard with his Chinese teacher. He surprised the world when he won a gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games. So when you winder which country is better to study in, think it again.
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阅读下面短文，根据所给语境，按要求完成下列各题。
Failure is a part of life. No matter what we do, there are always two results：success and failure. There is no doubt that every one of us wants to be successful, but we can’t always avoid failure.
People have different opinions about the failure. Some people regard failure as a bad thing. They hold that they should always do everything well. If they fail in something, they will lose their confidence. Other people regard failure as a chance to learn. They redo(重做) what they failed to do.（1）They know complaining won’t help themselves.
As an old saying goes, “Failure is the mother of success.” （2）As long as we keep to what is right and correct what is wrong in time, we will have success. In my opinion, failure is not bad, it’s not good, either.根据（1）处完成下面的句子。（每空一词）
They ___________________ think complaining ___________________ themselves.将（2）处翻译成汉语。
_______________________________________________________________________________根据短文内容填空。（每空一词）
When we fail in something, we shouldn’t _________ but __________ it again until we can succeed.
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