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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项(ABC和D中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Mary Kimble-Smith was an ordinary 12-year-old girl; ordinary, that is, in every way _36_one .She suddenly started to walk in her sleep. No one knew why this happened. The best guess _37_ to be that it represents _38_: the sleep-walker is worried. This feeling normally remains under control during _39_ hours, but at night, when the mind is in a _40_ passive mode, it _41_ to the surface and shows itself in the _42_ of physical movement.
At first, her family _43_ help from just about every doctor they could find. But _44_ of them were able to suggest a means _45_ which she could be cured. Then her parents were frightened, and they tried to wake her up. _46_, the general advice is that we _47_ not wake a sleepwalker. _48_ follows the idea that sleepwalker derives from some deep anxiety. To wake a person and bring them to a _49_ realization that they are not where they thought they were could _50_ the feelings of anxiety and perhaps _51_ reinforce(强化)the habit.
Most sleepwalkers at last stop _52_ any warning--- they _53_ do it again. In Mary’s case _54_ , she started sleep-walking soon after her twelfth birthday and was still doing it the day _55_ she died in 1989, at the age of 93.
36. A. beside B. besides C. except D. ...