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An American man who received the nation’s first full face transplant has married a fellow burns victim at the site where he was injured.

Dallas Wiens, 27, married Jamie Nash, 29, at a Texas church where a severe electrical accident destroyed his face and eyesight in 2008 as he was making repairs to a window, reports The Dallas Morning News.

The couple met in 2011 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Fort Worth while participating in a support group for burns victims. Wiens had spent months in the hospital after his accident at Ridglea Baptist Church, in which his head touched a high-voltage power line. Doctors there skillfully made a featureless face for him that qualified him to receive a full-face transplant in a Boston hospital. Wiens has already undergone more than 30 surgeries to restore function and form to his face.

Nash received burns to 70 per cent of her body in a car trash in 2010, after texting while driving. She wore a pink gown for the ceremony that exposed the scarring on her back and arms. Both the bride and groom have been married before and have three children, aged 5, 6 and 10, between them.

“Things happened that I didn’t think ever could be possible for me, and you made them possible,” Nash said, during the ceremony. “You gave me hope, and you gave me tender love that I will always treasure.”

The groom, Dallas Wiens, became the first in the nation to receive a full-face transplant after a 2008 power line accident.

The couple made their way for the wedding aisle to Bruno Mars’ Just the Way You Are.

“I think their confidence in their healing process and getting better just made them a perfect match,” said Ethan Gloger, a wedding guest and member of the administrative staff in Parkland’s burn unit.

56. Which word has the similar meaning with the underlined word“restore”in the 3rd paragraph?

   A. Use            B. Improve        C. Take        D. Recover

57. How did Dallas Wiens get disabled?

   A. When he did cleaning to a window.

   B. When he touched something dangerous.

   C. When he had his face transplanted.

   D. When he took part in an activity.

58. What does the third paragraph imply?

   A. Wiens got a job in Ridglea Baptist Church.

   B. The church paid for Wien’s hospital bills.

   C. Wiens suffered a lot from his injury.

   D. Boston hospital is the best one in America.

59. When a disaster happened to Nash,________.

   A. she was attending a ceremony.

   B. she was taking children to school

   C. she was distracted because of texting

   D. she was driving carefully on the way

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Barack Obama made his victory speech in Chicago after a hard-fought campaign.

Democratic Senator Barack Obama has won the US presidential election, and will become the 44th President of the United States-the first African-American in the country's history to do so.

President-elect Obama marked his victory with a speech to a crowd of tens of thousands of people in his hometown of Chicago.

Obama described his election as a "defining moment' in the history of the United States, saying that "change has come to America".

The BBC's spokesman in Washington says that in electing Barack Obama, the American people have expressed their unhappiness with the present state and rejected their country's historical racial divisions.

The Australian Prime Minister summed up how many people felt when he congratulated President-elect Obama.

“Forty-five years ago Martin Luther King had a dream of an America where men and women would be judged not on the colour of their skin but on the content of their character. Today what America has done is turn that dream into a reality," said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

President-elect Obama will not take office until 20th January next year. However, when he does become president, he will face many serious challenges, including two foreign wars, climate change and what he has described as " the worst financial crisis (经济危机)in a century."

But the mood of the country is optimistic, according to most commentators, and Obama himself appears to enjoy the challenge.

"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be difficult. We may not get there in one year or even in one term, but America--I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there," said the next President of the United States.

 

41. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. It was not a difficult process for Obama to win the US presidential election.

B. The American people welcome the historical racial divisions.

C. What Martin Luther King dreamed about America has come true.

D. After the election Obama didn't say anything about his victory.

42. According to the passage, it seems that in the United States, _____________.

A. people may still be treated unequally because of their color of skin.

B. people are experiencing two civil wars.

C. Americans are enjoying the economy developing.

D. People are not satisfied with President-elect.

43. From the last two paragraphs, we can learn that________________.

A. the attitude of American people to their country's future is not clear.

B. Obama has confidence in American future and ready to face it.

C. the road to America will be long.

D. the change of America is not hard to achieve.

44. What is probably the best title to the passage?

A. Historical presidential election                          B. The first African-American President

C. Change has come                                           D. Comments about America

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