辽宁省大连普兰店市2016_2017学年高二英语寒假会考检测试卷+答案

辽宁省大连普兰店市 2016-2017 学年高二英语寒假会考检测试题 第 I 卷（选择题 满分 60 分） 第一部分: 阅读理解（共 20 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 40 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项。 A Take a deep breath and drink some water for 15 seconds! This is just one of hundreds of tips you might get if you have the hiccups(打嗝). Hiccups are so m ysterious that 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 teaspoon of sugar. Still others drink a glass of water with a knife in it. An American man named Jack O’Leary claimed (声称) to have hiccupped 160 million times over a period of eight years. He tried 60,000 cures, but none of them worked. Finally he prayed to Saint Jude（圣徒犹大）, the saint of hopeless cases, and his hiccups stopped at once. It took a British engineer eight months to cure his hiccups. People from all over the world wrote him letters with suggestions for getting well. He tried them all, but the hicc