第六部分 完形填空（共六篇）
第十五篇
Is Your Child's Stomach Pain All in His Head？
We all know there are times that kids seem to complain 1 a stomach ache to get out of1 chores or going to school. Don't be so sure that the pain they 2 is all in their minds2. We're learning more now about a condition 3 " functional abdominal pain" that is experienced by millions of kids every day.
Like many teenagers, Kyle Brust makes it a point to do his homework: as 4 as he gets home. Unlike most, Kyle often did his with a terrible stomach ache. In fact, the 5 often started while he was at school, but getting help there was getting harder.
"Some of my teachers wouldn't let me go, because I'd asked so many times before and they thought I was trying to get out of 6 ," says Kyle.
Kyle's mom Marilyn says she couldn't blame the 7 . After all, she'd taken him to the doctor several times herself, and even they couldn't find anything 8
"You know, you're running the tests and nothing's coming up4. So, is it in his head, is he just an extremely stressful child? It's just frustrating 9 we're not finding any answers," says Marilyn.
It turns out Kyle was suffering from a condition known 10 functional abdominal pain, that affects as many as one out of every ten kids in this country. Even 11 the cause of the pain may not be obvious, there are real consequences.
"It really does hurt, and these kids really do suffer," says Dr. Campo, MD at Nationwide
Children's Hospital. To help 12 , Campo is looking into a new approach. He's conducting clinical trials of an antidepressant that changes the way the body handles a chemical called
serotonin. In a preliminary study, Dr. Campo found that in about eight out of ten 13 ,the drug normally used to treat emotional pain worked to ease the pain in the 14
"We think about it as being important in anxiety and depression and that's all quite true, but
what's really interesting is that 95% of our body's serotonin is in our gut," says Campo.
Campo believes these kids have extremely sensitive intestines, and controlling the effects of
serotonin may 15 ease the pain. It seemed to work for Kyle, who is now completely pain free for the first time in years.
詞匯：
Chore n．零星活兒 gut n．下消化道，腸；胃
Antidepressant n．抗抑郁藥 intestine n．腸
Serotonin n．血清素
注釋：
1．get out of：逃避
2．Don’t be so sure that the pain they feel is all in their minds：不要確信無(wú)疑他們所感覺到的疼痛全部是想象出來(lái)的。題目中的in his head等同于in his mind。
3．makes it a point to do sth：決心(堅(jiān)持)做某事
4．nothing’s coming up：沒有任何結(jié)果
練習(xí):
1. A of B on C at D by
2. A take B forget C feel D make
3. A stopped B created C called D mentioned
4. A soon B early C late D timely
5. A work B play C program D pain
6. A class B punishment C treatment D home
7. A doctors B teachers C parents D classmates
8. A good B useful C wrong D handy
9. A because B although C unless D so
10. A to B at C in D as
11. A though B whether C thus D how
12. A them B him C us D you
13. A numbers B studies C cases D parts
14. A stomach B head C heart D mind
15. A support B aid C assist D help
答案與題解：
1．A 表示“抱怨某事”，要在complain后面跟of一詞。
2．C 顯然，空格處應(yīng)填“感覺”，用feel一詞。
3．C A condition called “functional abdominal pain”的意思是：一種被稱作“功能性腹部疼痛”的病。
4．A 短語(yǔ)“as soon as”是固定搭配，意思是“一……(就……)”。
5．D 前一句的末尾提到了a terrible stomach pain，因此，接下來(lái)談的還應(yīng)是the pain。
6．A 老師們不讓他走，顯然他們認(rèn)為他是想逃課，所以應(yīng)選class一詞。
7．B 前一句提到了學(xué)校的老師，顯然，作為孩子的母親，Marilyn覺得怪不著老師。
8．C 根據(jù)上文可以得知，即使是醫(yī)生們也查不出什么毛病。
9．A 本句的意思是“這種情況令人困頓，因?yàn)槲覀兊貌怀鋈魏未鸢浮?
10．D known as是固定搭配，意思是“通常名叫”。
11．A even though是固定搭配，意思是“盡管”。
12．A前一句中出現(xiàn)了these kids，空格處還應(yīng)指他們，所以用them一詞。
13．C in about eight out of ten cases的意思是：在每十個(gè)病例中約有八例。
14．A前面多次談到了腹部疼痛，因此這里應(yīng)是stomach。
15．D表示“有助于做某事，”從語(yǔ)法的角度講，只有help一詞后面可以跟不帶t0的不定式。
