今天小編給大家?guī)?019年*英語等級考試三級模擬試題4套閱讀，希望對大家有所幫助。
When a 13-year-old Virginia girl started sneezing,her parents thought it was merely a cold.But when the sneezes continued for hours,they called in a doctor.Nearly two months later the girl was still 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 her bead"poured in.But nothing did any good.Finally,she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital where Dr.Leo Kanner,one of the world's top authorities on sneezing,solved the baffling(難以理解的)problem with great speed.
He used neither drugs nor surgery,curiously enough,the clue for the treatment was found in an ancient superstition about the amazing bodily reaction we call the sneeze.It was all in her mind,he said a view which Aristotle,some 3,000 years earlier,would have agreed with heartily.
Dr.Kanner simply gave a modern psychological interpretation to the ancient belief that too much sneezing 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 an ex-sneezer,"he reported.
Sneezing has always been a subject of wonder,awe and puzzlement.Dr.Kanner has collected thousands of superstitions concerning it.The most universal one is the custom of begging for the blessing of God when a person sneezes-a practice Dr.Kanner traces back to the ancient belief that a sneeze was an indication that the sneezer was possessed of an evil spirit.Strangely,people over the world 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 conscious help from you,takes on a job that has to be done.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.
1、Dr.Kanner cured the girl by
A.using Aristotle's method
B.giving her psychological treatment
C.practicing superstition
D.treating her tuberculosis
參考答案：B
參考解析：此題考查對文意的理解。從第四段中“卡納博士用現(xiàn)代心理學(xué)的知識對此做出解釋，然后開始醫(yī)治這個小女孩”
2、The girl sneezed continuously because she
A.was ill
B.was mentally ill
C.had heavy mental burden
D.had attracted world-wide attention
參考答案：C
參考解析：詳見第五段的語義解釋，“我為她制定了更好的學(xué)業(yè)計劃和職業(yè)規(guī)劃，并向她保證她不會得肺結(jié)核，她的擔(dān)心是不正常的，她就馬上停止了打噴嚏”。說明小女孩不停地打噴嚏是因為心理負(fù)擔(dān)很重。
A.a lot of people offered their advice
B.she was taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital
C.she was given a treatment found in ancient superstition
D.many doctors treated her in different ways
參考答案：A
參考解析：此題考察對段落和題干的分析理解。[解題要點]重點明確題干要求，從第二段中分析，排除B項、C項和D項。[思路拓展]從題干的要求中尋找段落，分析比較選項，得出正確結(jié)論。
4、According to scientists people sneeze because
A.they are ill
B.to sneeze is human nature
C.they do not need any conscious help
D.there are unwanted things in their noses
參考答案：B
參考解析：從“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。此題考查對段落文意的理解。在后一段中“nature”作為關(guān)鍵詞，是判斷本題的重要依據(jù)。
5、When a person sneezes,we say"God bless you"because
A.it's a tradition
B.the person is possessed of an evil spirit
C.the person is ill
D.God will bless those who sneeze
參考答案：A
參考解析：此題考察對段落的理解和對作者觀點的歸納。從第六段的后一句話中可以得出作者的看法：“世界各地的人們?nèi)匀焕^續(xù)著‘愿上帝保佑你’或者與之類似的說法?！?
