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医生表示，窄腿牛仔裤可能会伤害你的腿。一篇最新发表在《神经学、神经外科学和精神病医学期刊》的报告说，一位身着窄腿紧身牛仔裤的澳大利亚女士由于腿脚肿胀麻木，疼痛无比被送往医院接受治疗，她的腿肿胀到无法脱下身穿的牛仔裤，医生不得不先用剪刀剪开她穿的裤子后才能对她进行入院治疗。以下是 Richard Slee 的报道。
The 35-year-old woman had to be cut out of her jeans after she lost the feeling in her lower legs, which had become badly swollen.
The doctors said the tight jeans had caused a loss of blood supply as well as muscle and nerve damage.
The case study, which is published in an online medical journal, says the woman had spent the previous day helping a relative move house and a number of hours squatting as she emptied cupboards, feeling more uncomfortable as the day progressed.
The woman was treated in hospital for four days and is now thought to have made a full recovery.
测验
请听报道并回答下列问题。
1. What problems did the skinny jeans cause?
2. Why was the woman squatting?
3. True or false? The woman still feels pain when she squats.
4. Which adverb in the text means ‘in a serious or harmful way’?
词汇表
swollen 肿胀的
blood supply 供血
muscle 肌肉
nerve 神经
relative 亲戚
squatting 蹲着
made a full recovery 完全恢复了健康
答案
1. What problems did the skinny jeans cause?
The woman’s lower legs became swollen, her blood supply was affected, and muscles and nerves in her leg were damaged.
2. Why was the woman squatting?
The woman was squatting because she was emptying cupboards.
3. True or false? The woman still feels pain when she squats.
False. According to the report, the woman made a full recovery.
4. Which adverb in the text means ‘in a serious or harmful way’?
Badly. Her legs were ‘badly’ swollen.