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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.

The girl sneezed continuously because she ________

A . was ill
B . was mentally ill
C . had heavy mental burden
D . had attracted world-wide attention

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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.

The girl sneezed continuously because she ________
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有一天,一个住在维吉尼亚州的13岁的女孩儿开始打喷嚏,她的父母起初以为只是个小感冒,后来,她的喷嚏持续了好几个小时,他们就叫来了医生。在后来近两个月的时间里,女孩儿还是不停地打喷嚏,每天要打上千个,她的病症引起了全世界的关注。
人们提供了成百上千条建议,像“把衣服夹子夹在她鼻子上”或是“让她倒立”,但是无一奏效。最后,她被带到约翰斯•霍普金斯医院,请世界顶尖的喷嚏治疗专家之一李奥•卡纳博士诊治。这个令人费解的难题很快就解决了。
神奇的是,他既没有用药也没有动手术,而是在古老的关于喷嚏的迷信中找到了治疗的线索。他说.主要在于诊治她的精神,生活在3,000年前的亚里士多德一定会完全赞成这一观点。
古人认为频繁地打喷嚏表明人的精神正受到困扰,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。
他报告说:“我们在医院的一个房间里,待了不到两天的时间。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。”
打喷嚏常常是因为惊奇、害怕和迷惑。卡纳博士收集了关于打喷嚏的上千种迷信说法,最常见的一种是打喷嚏是为了乞求上帝保佑,这一说法可以追溯到远古时期,那时人们相信一个人打喷嚏是因为他有一个罪恶的灵魂。奇怪的是,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。
科学家们则把喷嚏看成是人们奇特且无意识的身体机制引起的,它的发生是有原因的。你想打喷嚏的时候就打出来,这是把鼻子里令人不舒服的物体弄出来的简单自然的方法。也许鼻子想要清除的只是里面的一些灰尘。
答案及解析
C【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。

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