单选题 When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing, her parents thought it was merely a cold. Butwhen the sneezes continued for hours, they called in a doctor. Nearly two months later the girl wasstill sneezing, thousands of times a day, and her case had attracted worldwide attention. Hundreds of suggestions, ranging from"put a clothes pin on her nose"to "have her stand on herhead"poured in. But nothing did any good. Finally,she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital whereDr. Leo Kanner, one of the world’s top authorities on sneezing, solved the baffling (难以理解的)problem with great speed. He used neither drugs nor surgery, curiously enough, the clue for the treatment was found in anancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze. It was all in her mind, hesaid, a view which Aristotle, some 3,000 years earlier, would have agreed with heartily. Dr. Kanner simply gave a modem psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too muchsneezing was an indication that the spirit was troubled; and he began to treat the girl accordingly."Less than two days in a hospital room, a plan for better scholastic and vocational adjustment, and reassurance about her unreasonable fear of tuberculosis quickly changed her from a sneezer to anex-sneezer," he reported. Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder, awe and puzzlement. Dr. Kanner has collectedthousands of superstitions concerning it. The most universal one is the custom of begging for theblessing of God when a person sneezes a practice Dr. Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that asneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit. Strangely, people over theworld still continue the custom with the traditional, "God bless you" or its equivalent. When scientists look at the sneeze, they see a remarkable mechanism which, without any con-scious help from you, takes on a job that has to be done. When you need to sneeze you sneeze, thisbeing nature’s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose. The object may be justsome dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove.
单选题 The girl sneezed continuously because she ________
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】详见第五段的语义解释，“我为她制定了更好的学业计划和职业规划，并向她保证她不会得肺结核，她的担心是不正常的，她就马上停止了打喷嚏”。说明小女孩不停地打喷嚏是因为心理负担很重。
单选题 When the girl began to sneeze continuously,________
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】重点要明确题干要求，从第二段的分析可排除B项、C项和D项。
单选题 Dr. Kanner cured the girl by________
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】细节题。从第四段中的“卡纳博士用现代心理学的知识对此做出解释，然后开始对这个女孩儿进行相应的治疗”可知选B。
单选题 When a person sneezes, we say" God bless you" because __________
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】此题考查对段落的理解和对作者观点的归纳。从第六段的最后一句话中可以得出作者的看法：“世界各地的人们仍然使用着‘愿上帝保佑你’或是与之相似的说法。”，也就是说，人们说“愿上帝保佑你”是出于一种传统。
单选题 According to scientists, people sneeze because________
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】从“When you need to sneeze you sneeze, this being nature’s clever way of getting rid of an annoying object from the nose.The object may be just some dust in the nose which nature is striving to remove．”可知。此题考查对段落文意的理解。在最后一段中“nature”作为关键词，是判断本题的重要依据。