【答案解析】[解析] 从文章可得知她是因为7个月大的时候的一场疾病而失聪失明的。故本题答案为B。 [听力原文] <17>-<20>. Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing of a sickness at the age of 19 months ,even before she had learned to talk. For the first seven years of her life she was like a wild animal. She wanted other people to communicate. Finally her parents sent for a teacher, Miss Ann Sullivan. Ann taught her how to learn the world through touch and smell and feeling, and eventually she became a teacher, writer and lecturer.