“You'll have to take care of the baby today,” a woman told her husband . “ I'm not feeling well.”
“Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear. “ her husband said. “I'll be pleased to look after our baby. “
“Thank you. I'll have a quiet day and I'll soon get better. “ his wife told him.
“Shall I do the shopping for you as well?” her husband asked.
She was very pleased and said, “That will help me very much. I'll give you a list of things to buy. “
She wrote out the list and gave it to him.
“You can get all these things at the supermarket,” she said.
“You can put the baby in the shopping cart, then you won't have to leave him outside.”
The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the rows of things to buy and looked for those that were on his list.
At first all was well, but then the baby began to cry.
Then he started to scream.
And scream!
And SCREAM!
“Keep calm ,George, ” the man said. “Don't get excited. Don't shout, George. Don't lose your temper, George.”
A woman in the supermarket heard him saying these things. She walked up to him.
“I think you are wonderful ,”she said. “You are so patient with your little George. ”
  “Madam, ”" the man said, “I'm George. He's Edward.”
【小题1】 Why did the man take care of the baby?

A.it was his turn.B.His wife was not well.
C.His wife was not at home.D.He always looked after it.
【小题2】Why did the man take the baby to the supermarket?
A.He had to go shopping.
B.He wanted to show the baby to his friend.
C.He wanted to give the baby a ride in a shopping cart.
D.The baby liked going to the supermarket.
【小题3】What did the baby do in the supermarket?
A.pushed the shopping cartB.lost its temper
C.made a lot of noiseD.helped his father
【小题4】Finally we can infer from the story that_____ .
A.the man was very calm when the baby was crying
B.the woman was very pleased to see the man
C.the woman mistook George for the baby, while in fact the man was named George
D.the man was very busy in shopping, but he couldn't find all the goods on the list

An Australian man who has been donating(捐献) his extremely rare kind of blood(血液) for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.

James Harrison has an antibody(抗体) in his plasma(血浆) that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia(贫血). He has enabled countless mothers to give birth to healthy babies, including his own daughter, Tracey, who had a healthy son thanks to her father's blood.

Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old and has now racked up a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was deemed so special that his life was insured(保险) for one million Australian dollars.

He was also nicknamed the “man with the golden arm” or the “man in two million”. He said, “I've never thought about stopping. Never!” He made a pledge to be a donor aged 14 after undergoing major chest surgery in which he needed 13 liters of blood. “I was in hospital for three months,” he said. “The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.”

Just after he started donating he was found to have the rare(稀有的) and life-saving antibody in his blood. At the time, thousands of babies in Australia were dying each year of Rhesus disease. Other newborns suffered permanent(永久的) brain damage because of the condition. The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood. It stems from one having Rh-positive(阳性) blood and the other Rh-negative(阴性).

His blood has since led to the development of a vaccine called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to undergo a series of tests to help develop the Anti-D vaccine. “They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of,” he said. “I wasn't scared. I was glad to help. I had to sign every form going and basically sign my life away.”

Mr. Harrison is Rh-negative and was given injections of Rh-positive blood. It was found his plasma could treat the condition and since then it has been given to hundreds of thousands of women. It has also been given to babies after they are born to stop them developing the disease.

It is estimated he has helped save 2.2 million babies so far. Mr. Harrison is still donating every few weeks now.

1.How old is James Harrison?

A.74

B.70.

C.56

D.78

2.What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?

A.mothers

B.babies

C.dollars

D.blood

3.Why did James decide to donate his blood? Because _____.

A.his daughter asked him to help her son

B.he has a golden arm worth a million dollars

C.a vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed

D.someone else’s blood saved his life

4.The sentence “The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood” (underlined in Paragraph 5) suggests that _____.

A.the mother and the baby have different types of blood

B.babies suffer permanent brain damage before born

C.Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage

D.all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood

5.What can we infer from the sixth paragraph?

A.His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then.

B.Mr. Harrison was not glad to help develop a new vaccine.

C.Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous.

D.His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests.

 

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