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(3)Never let yourself forget how much we still don’t know about our brains and bodies. Specifically, the relationship between the two.You’re a woman. You missed your period, and now you have morning sickness. Congratulations! Or not! After a few weeks, your abdomen swells. Eventually, you start having labor pains… but the doctor says there is no baby, and that there never was one. Either you are having a ghost baby, or it was all in your head.They used to call it “hysterical pregnancy”—a term that dates back to when male scientists had declared that all mental disorders radiated from female lady parts. It’s now referred to as pseudocyesis, and it’s shockingly common—as many as one out of every few hundred pregnancies turns out to be pseudocyesis. That is, nonexistent.What causes it? Were you impregnated by an incubus, and are you about to give birth to an invisible spiritual entity? After all, it’d be one thing if these false pregnancies just caused some nausea and weight gain. But the condition also causes other common pregnancy symptoms such as breast sensitivity. In the weirdest cases—such as this 1960s case of a woman in Rochester—the abdomen will become distended as if there’s a fetus pushing out (doctors have found they can make this go away with anesthesia.)Sufferers even claim they feel the baby “kick.” What the hell?Reports of false pregnancy have been around as far back as recorded history goes. Hippocrates (the dude the Hippocratic oath comes from) wrote about women with the disorder around 300 BC. In one of the most famous cases, the Queen of England, Mary I or Bloody Mary, was so desperate to bear a child that she had a fake pregnancy. The disease reemerged again in the famous case of “Anne O,” who developed a fake pregnancy after imagining being impregnated by her doctor Josef Breuer. Breuer later talked about the strange case to the famous psychologist Sigmund Freud, who was so fascinated by it that it became the basis of his work in the field of psychotherapy.But we’ve saved the weirdest part for last. Pseudocyesis doesn’t just affect women. Yep, false pregnancy has turned up in men who duplicate the symptoms of their partners’ pregnancy. They go through the same morning sickness, muscle cramps and, in one case, the same abdominal swelling as their pregnant wives.Again we say, what the hell?
54. In this passage, false pregnancy is cited as an example to illustrate _____.
(A) how the brain tricks the body into illness
(B) how body illness induces brain disorders
(C) how desperately every woman wants to bear a baby
(D) how unbearable brain disorders are during pregnancy

參考答案

答案：A
難度：簡單0.714286
統計：A(5),B(1),C(0),D(1),E(0)

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