Question

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

James Harrison has an antibody in his plasma that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia. 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 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 litres 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 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 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 blood and the other Rh-negative.

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．56               B．70               C．74               D．78

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

A．dollars            B．babies            C．mothers          D．all of the above

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

A．someone else’s blood saved his life

B．he has a golden arm worth a million dollars

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

D．his daughter asked him to help her son

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．all the patients have a rare antibody in their blood

B．babies suffer permanent brain damage before born

C．Rhesus disease contributes to permanent brain damage

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

5.What can we infer from the sixth paragraph?

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

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

C．Mr. Harrison was glad to help develop a new vaccine.

D．His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.D

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇记叙文，记叙了一位澳大利亚男子捐献自己极其罕见的血液已经救了超过二百万的孩子的故事，在他18岁时，因为他的病了，急需要血，别人帮他输血，救了他的生命，从那时起他一直捐献自己的血液来救别人

1.细节题。由第一段第一句话An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.和第三段第一行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.可以知道他的年龄，所以选C

2.推理判断题。由第一段第一句话An Australian man who has been donating his extremely rare kind of blood for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.可以推出答案，故选B。

3.细节题，由第四段最后一句The blood I received saved my life so I made a pledge to give blood when I was 18.故选A。

4.推理题，由后面的句子It stems from one having Rh-positive blood and the other Rh-negative.可以知道妈妈和孩子有不同类型的血型，所以选D。

5.推理题，由第六段的主要意思“一些开发的疫苗试验是很危险的”所以选B

考点：这是一篇记叙文。

点评：第一段概括了全文的主要意思，采用了总—分—总，因此，在阅读记叙文时，一定要注意首段或末段的信息，因为那通常就是文章的主题句。