Bend over, take a deep breath and drink some water！This is just one of hundreds of pieces of advice you might get if you have the hiccups（打嗝）.Hiccups are so mysterious(神秘的)．We really don’t know why they start and why they stop．
Everyone has a favorite cure for a case of the hiccups．Some people think that a good scare is necessary to get well．Others eat a little sugar．Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it．
An American man named Jack O’Leary said that he had hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years．He tried 60，000 cures，but none of them worked．Finally he prayed（向…祈禱） to Saint Jude, the saint of Hopeless cases, and his hiccupping stopped immediately．
A British worker didn’t stop his hiccups until eight months later. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well．He tried them all，but the hiccups continued．Finally，he drank a “secret” mixture(混合物) someone had sent him. By that evening his hiccups were gone．
Why did these cures work for these two men? No one really knows. But people who have studied many cases of hiccups have an idea. Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure．
小題1:        might be the best cure for hiccups.
A．Special pills
B．A spoonful of salt
C．Cold water
D．What you believe in
小題2:The British worker spent __________ in stopping his hiccups．
A．4 hours
B．2 days
C．8 months
D．8 years
小題3:What is the main idea of this passage?
A．Different ways to stop hiccups
B．What makes hiccups happen
C．How to get hiccups
D．Jack O‘Leary’s hiccups

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:A

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了治療打嗝問題的各種辦法。
小題1:根據(jù)短文最后一段Hiccups usually go away if you believe in the cure．描述，可知選D。
小題2:根據(jù)A British worker didn’t stop his hiccups until eight months later.描述，可知他八個月后才停止打嗝，故選C。
小題3:這篇短文主要介紹了治療打嗝問題的各種辦法，故選A，終止打嗝的各種辦法。
點評：本文淺顯易懂，各個小題都能在文中找到適當依據(jù)。只要認真閱讀短文，注意前后聯(lián)系，就能順利完成閱讀。文章所設試題主要考察細節(jié)查找，做題關鍵是找出原文的根據(jù)，認真核查小題和原文的異同。
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