【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
Helen Keller was born a healthy and normal baby in 1880. Then when she was 19 months old, she became very ill with high fever. It left her blind, deaf and unable to speak though she survived the scarlet illness. She lived in a world of darkness and silence. As she grew up she became uncontrollable and wild.
When she was 7 years old, a loving and strong woman, Anne Sullivan, came into Helen"s life. She tried to teach Helen to understand words through a system of touching. Helen made rapid progress so that she could read, listen and even speak. With Anne"s help, Helen could go to school and university. Helen mastered French and German, studied philosophy and even learned to ride horses and swim.
After university, Helen worked to help those with disabilities. She wrote books about her life. She traveled around America giving lectures and raised more than $ 2 million for the American Foundation for the Blind. Many people benefited from her unique insight and courage. She changed the way people thought about the disabled. Her story gave hope to many people. Miss Keller died in 1968, but her spirit lives on. It lives on, in her books and stories.
What made Helen blind, deaf and unable to speak?
[解析] 原文提到是那时候的高烧使Helen Kelle失去了视力。