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山东科技大学 2007 年招收硕士学位研究生入学考试
英语（单）试卷
Part 1 Reading Comprehension (40%)
Questions 1 to 5 are baded on the following passage.
The common cold is the world‟s most widespread illness, which probably why
there are more myths a-bout it than any of the other plagues that flesh is heir to.
The most widespread fallacy(谬误)of all is that colds are caused by cold. They
are not. They are caused by viruses passage on from person to person. You catch a
cold by coming into contact, directly or indirectly, with someone who already has one.
If cold causes colds, it would be reasonable to expect the Eskimos to suffer from them
permanently. But they do not. And in isolated arctic regions explorers have reported
being free from colds until coming into contact again with infected people from the
outside world by way of packages and mail dropped from airplanes.
During the First World War soldiers who spent long periods in the trenches(战
壕),cold and wet, showed no increased tendency to catch colds.
In the Second War prisoners at the notorious Auschwitxz concntration camp,
naked and starving, were astonished to find that they seldom had colds.
At the Common Cold Research Unit in England, volunteers took part in
Experiments in which they submit-ted to the discomforts of being cold and wet for
long stretches of time. After taking hot baths, they put on bath-ing suits, allowed
themselves to be wet with cold water, and then stood about dripping wet in drafty
room. Some wore wet socks all day while others excised in the rain until close to
exhaustion. Not one of the volunteers came down with a cold unless a cold virus was
actually dropped in his nose.
If, then, cold and wet have nothing to do with catching colds, why are they more
prevalent in the winter? Despite the most pains-taking research, no one has yet found
the answer. One explanation offered by scientists is that people tend to stay togeher
indoors more in cold weather than at other times, and this makes it easier for cold
viruses to be passed on.
No one yet found a cure for the cold. There are drugs and pain suppressors(止痛
片)such as aspirin, but all they do is relieve the symptoms.
1. According to the passage, there are more myths about the common cold than
any other human disease because .
(A)it spreads very quickly
(B)it is the most widespread illness
(C)the climate of the world is getting colder and colder
(D)few people can catch colds
2. We learn from the passage that .
(A) the Eskimos do not suffer from colds at all
(B) colds are caused by cod
(c) people suffer from colds just because they like to stay indoors
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