Bea, a five-year-old girl, was born with a severe illness which means she has to be kept away from other children her age, because her body is so weak that she would be unable to fight off a common cold.

Bea was diagnosed (诊断) with this disease when she was five months old. Since then, the hospital has become her second home, medicines for food, and all kinds of treatments her friends. Bea received a very special treatment when she was four years old, which would allow her to be like a normal child if successful. After that, she spent two weeks in ICU before living for four months on a separate ward(病房). Bea was allowed home in February but still needed a special tube in her nose to send in medicine every two days.

Her parents clean the house from top to bottom every two days and hoover (用吸尘器清扫) each morning to make sure Bea is free from any possible bacteria. Anna, Bea’s mother, said, “She is weak but so strong. We’ve never seen any child stronger than her. It seems as if nothing in the world could beat her. We really hope to send her to school next year.” She used to drive on the local playground, but Bea was only allowed to watch sitting in the car. “It was heartbreaking to see Bea staring at the running and laughing children there. She never stopped fighting the disease. I know she’s dying for such a normal life.”

    Hearing of Bea’s story, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has paid for a play park to be built in her back garden. “Bea is very brave and she has encouraged many children like her,” said the chairman of the foundation.

56. If Bea stayed with other children freely, ___________.

   A. other children would have a higher chance to catch her disease

   B. she would catch a common cold which would kill her quickly

   C. her life would be in great danger as she could fall ill easily

   D. she would be lost in playing and forget to receive treatment

57. From the passage we can infer that ___________.

   A. Bea will need a tube in her nose all the time

   B. Bea has to stay in hospital until she is an adult

   C. Bea’s parents will send her to school next year

   D. Bea’s mother feels proud when talking about her

58. The Make-A-Wish Foundation had a play park built for Bea to ___________.

   A. honor her bravery in fighting against her disease

   B. call for attention to this immune system deficiency

   C. encourage more children like Bea to be optimistic

   D. launch a campaign against this serious disease

59. What makes Bea so brave to fight against this serious disease?

   A. Her parents’ encouragement and care.

   B. Her dreaming of owning a play park.

   C. Her wish to become a normal child.

   D. Her doctor’s skills and experience.

    Bea, a five-year-old girl, was born with a severe illness which means she has to be kept away from other children her age, because her body is so weak that she would be unable to fight off a common cold.

Bea was diagnosed (诊断) with this disease when she was five months old. Since then, the hospital has become her second home, medicines for food, and all kinds of treatments her friends. Bea received a very special treatment when she was four years old, which would allow her to be like a normal child if successful. After that, she spent two weeks in ICU before living for four months on a separate ward(病房). Bea was allowed home in February but still needed a special tube in her nose to send in medicine every two days.

Her parents clean the house from top to bottom every two days and hoover (用吸尘器清扫) each morning to make sure Bea is free from any possible bacteria. Anna, Bea’s mother, said, “She is weak but so strong. We’ve never seen any child stronger than her. It seems as if nothing in the world could beat her. We really hope to send her to school next year.” She used to drive on the local playground, but Bea was only allowed to watch sitting in the car. “It was heartbreaking to see Bea staring at the running and laughing children there. She never stopped fighting the disease. I know she’s dying for such a normal life.”

    Hearing of Bea’s story, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has paid for a play park to be built in her back garden. “Bea is very brave and she has encouraged many children like her,” said the chairman of the foundation.

56. If Bea stayed with other children freely, ___________.

   A. other children would have a higher chance to catch her disease

   B. she would catch a common cold which would kill her quickly

   C. her life would be in great danger as she could fall ill easily

   D. she would be lost in playing and forget to receive treatment

57. From the passage we can infer that ___________.

   A. Bea will need a tube in her nose all the time

   B. Bea has to stay in hospital until she is an adult

   C. Bea’s parents will send her to school next year

   D. Bea’s mother feels proud when talking about her

58. The Make-A-Wish Foundation had a play park built for Bea to ___________.

   A. honor her bravery in fighting against her disease

   B. call for attention to this immune system deficiency

   C. encourage more children like Bea to be optimistic

   D. launch a campaign against this serious disease

59. What makes Bea so brave to fight against this serious disease?

   A. Her parents’ encouragement and care.

   B. Her dreaming of owning a play park.

   C. Her wish to become a normal child.

   D. Her doctor’s skills and experience.

—My boy is always making trouble at school.It makes me upset.
—________—there’s nothing to worry about!

When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station. When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street. But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship （奖学金） and gain entry to Harvard University. And her amazing story has inspired a movie, “ Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story ” , shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination. Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted （吸毒） parents. There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house. Liz was the only member of the family who had a job. Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old. The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life. Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school. She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless. At night, she lived on the streets. “ What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being. I had only experienced a small part of the society, ” she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on. She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that “ next to nothing could hold me down ” . She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University . But Liz decided to leave her top university a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS. “ I love my parents so much. They are drug addicts. But I never forget that they love me all the time. ”
Liz wants moviegoers to come away with the idea that changing your life is “ as simple as making a decision ” .
【小题1】 In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a. Her mother died of AIDS.
b. She worked at a petrol station.
c. She got admitted into Harvard.
d. The movie about her life was put on.
e. She had trouble finding a place to sleep.