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The thin, extremely sharp needles didn't hurt at all going in. Dr. Gong pierced them into my left arm, around the elbow that had been bothering me. Other needles were slipped into my left wrist and, strangely, into my right arm, and then into both my closed eyelids.
There wasn't any discomfort, just a mild warming sensation. However, I did begin to wonder what had driven me here, to the office of Dr. James Gong, in New York's Chinatown.
Then I remembered—the torturing pain in that left elbow. Several trips to a hospital and two expensive, uncomfortable medical tests had failed to produce even a diagnosis. "Maybe you lean on your left arm too much," the doctor concluded, suggesting I see a bone doctor.
During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and try acupuncture. A Chinese-American friend recommended Dr. Gong. I took the subway to Gong's second-floor office, marked with a hand-painted sign.
Dr. Gong speaks English, but not often. Most of my questions to him were greeted with a friendly laugh, but I managed to let him know where my arm hurt. He asked me to go into a room, had me lie down on a bed, and went to work. In the next room, I learned, a woman dancer was also getting a treatment. As I lay there a while, I drifted into a dream-like state and fantasized about what she looked like.
Acupuncturists today are as likely to be found on Park Avenue as on Mott Street. In all there are an estimated 10,000 acupuncturists in the country. Nowadays, a lot of medical doctors have learned acupuncture techniques; so have a number of dentists. Reason? Patient demand. Few, though, can adequately explain how acupuncture works.
Acupuncturists may say that the body has more than 800 acupuncture points. A life force called "qi" circulates through the body. Points on the skin are energetically connected to specific organs, body structures and systems. Acupuncture points are stimulated to balance the circulation of "qi".
The truth is, though acupuncture is at least 2,200 years old, "nobody really knows what's happening," says Paul Zmiewski, a Ph.D. in Chinese studies who practices acupuncture in Philadelphia.
After five treatments, there has been dramatic improvement in my arm, and the pain is a fraction of what it was. The mainly silent Dr. Gong finally even offered a diagnosis for what troubled me. "Pinched nerve," he said.
Q: What does the speaker find especially strange?
[解析] 四个选项都以Dr. Gong开头,三项描述的都是Dr. Gong的治疗过程或治疗细节。听录音时,需要听清楚问题是在询问哪个治疗细节,抓住问题的关键信息。
本题就龚医生对讲话者的治疗过程中的细节进行提问。讲话者在录音开头提到:“龚医生将那些针扎进我左臂的肘部周围,这个部位的疼痛一直困扰着我。另外一些针被不知不觉地扎进了我的左腕,还有一些针,有点奇怪,扎进了我的右臂,然后扎进了我闭着的眼睑上。”可以看出讲话者的左臂手肘处有疼痛,但是龚医生却把针也扎在了他没有感到疼痛的右臂和眼睑上,这让讲话者感到奇怪。选项D是对原文的概括总结,故为正确答案。选项A明显错误;选项B虽然原文有提及,但讲话者没有说他为此感到奇怪;选项C原文没有提及,故排除这三个选项。