根据下面资料，回答题 Karen Rusa was a 30-year-old woman and the mother of four -考呗网

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Karen Rusa was a 30-year-old woman and the mother of four children. For the past several months Karen had been experiencing repetitive thoughts that centered around her children´ s safety.
She frequently found herself imagining that a serious accident had occurred; she was unable to put these thoughts out of her mind. On one such occasion she imagined that her son, Alan, had broken his leg playing football at school. There was no reason to believe that an accident had occurred,but she kept thinking about the possibility until she finally called the school to see if Alan was all fight. Even after receiving their assurance that he had not been hurt, she described herself as being somewhat surprised when he later arrived home unharmed. Karen also noted that her daily routine was seriously hampered by an extensive series of counting work that she performed throughout each day. Specific numbers had come to have a special meaning to her; she found that her preoccupation with these numbers was hampering her ability to perform everyday activities. One example was grocery shopping. Karen believed that if she selected the first item on the shelf, something terrible would happen to her oldest child. If she selected the second item, some unknown disaster would fall on her second child, and so on for the four children. Karen´ s preoccupation with numbers ex-tended to other activities, most notable the pattern in which she smoked cigarettes and drank cof-fee. If she had one cigarette; she believed that she had to smoke at least four in a row, or one of
her children would be harmed in some way. If she drank one cup of coffee, she felt compelled to drink four. Karen acknowledged the unreasonableness of these rules, but, nevertheless, maintained that she felt more comfortable. When she observed them earnestly, when she was occasionally in too great a hurry to observe these rules, she experienced considerable anxiety, in the form of a sub-jective feeling of dread and fear. She described herself as tense, uneasy, and unable to relax during these periods. The occurrence of rarely minor accidents does not reduce her belief that she had been directly responsible because of her inability to observe the rules about number.
The main idea of this passage is to__________．

A．describe a woman who suffered from a psychological disease
B．warn the readers against any imagination
C．explain the reason why Karen had such fanciful thoughts
D．present a case for the readers to study

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阅读赏析
文章主要描述了一个遭受心理障碍困扰的女人。在过去几个月，这位妇女一直受到有关她孩子安全的困扰。她经常发现自己总是在想象发生一系列的严重事故。一次，她对儿子的安全产生怀疑，直到打电话到学校证实儿子安然无恙。在购物时，她每从货架上拿一件物品，便想着自己的一个孩子因此遭殃。她抽烟，喝咖啡，都要连抽4根和连喝4杯。如果做不到，就会很忧虑。这些都说明她由于过分关心孩子，受到了严重的精神困扰。
答案及解析
【命题目的】本题考查考生归纳中心思想的能力。
【解题要点】文章第一段前五句说“在过去几个月，这位妇女一直受到有关她孩子安全的困扰。她经常发现自己总是在想象发生一系列的严重事故。一次，她对儿子的安全产生怀疑，打电话到学校证实儿子安然无恙”。这些足以证明这个妇女深受心理障碍之苦。

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3Which of the following inferences is most probably NOT true according to the passage?

A．When Karen was in a great hurry to smoke，she would feel much anxiety．
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C．Drinking four cups of coffee would make Karen more comfortable than drinking two cups．
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