题目内容
阅读理解
He was only 12 years old when he died, but he brought courage and hope to people around the world.
Nkosi Johnson, who died last June, is remembered today as an AIDS fighter. This young boy challenged his government's AIDS policies and united millions of South Africans in the fight against the disease.
Johnson was the longest surviving(幸存的) person born HIV positive(爱滋病病毒携带者). He survived with this deadly disease for 12 years before it claimed his life.
At first, Johnson was expected to live for nine months when his foster mother, Gail Johnson, took him in at the age of two. She now runs Nkosi's Haven across town from her house in Melville. The Haven is home to 20 children living with HIV or AIDS, and I of their mothers.
Johnson attracted the world's attention and stole the heats of thousands of people across the world at the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban in July 2008. He stood in front of a large audience including South African President Thabo Mbeki. He told them that he wanted AZT, a drug used to treat AIDS patients, to be given to HIV-positive pregnant(怀孕的) women to prevent the disease being passed on to their unborn babies. He received a loud cheer at the end of his speech.
Johnson's speech was broadcast live across the world. With views beyond his age and even a sense of humor, Johnson soon became an international sign of the fight against AIDS and HIV.
1．The underlined words “claimed his life” ( paragraph 3 ) means ________.
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A．did harm to Johnson's health
B．helped Johnson to survive
C．caused the death of Johnson
D．made Johnson weak
2．The AIDS child gave the speech in order to ________.
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A．steal the hearts of thousands of people
B．be an AIDS fighter
C．get more help from the world
D．fight against the government
3．We can infer from the passage that ________.
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A．the government's AIDS policies have to be improved
B．the government did nothing to help those with AIDS positive
C．the boy's speech changed the government's policies
D．no one lived longer than the boy
4．The best title for the passage is ________.
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A．The Sad Story of An AIDS Child
B．The Courage of An AIDS Child
C．AIDS, A Deadly Disease
D．A Hero In South Africa
解析：
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1．C 导解：从语意连接来看，活了12年之后当然是死去了． 2．C 导解：他在讲话中希望用药物治疗患AIDS的孕妇，并对政府的一些做法提出质疑． 3．A 导解：从文中可知人们认为政府在这一问题上的一些做法有待改进． 4．B 导解：全文讲述Nkosi这位小斗士抗击AIDS的故事，A项的sad显然与本文的基调不吻合． |
阅读理解
Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their child-hood in little wooden rooms. They got little education. Washington and Lincoln, for example, never went to school and they taught themselves. Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shop-keeper and post-master in his early years.
A large number of American presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school?--West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One maybe surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined (罚款) because he broke the rules of the school.
The jobs of U. S. presidents are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do and he has to make many important decisions (决定). When Franklin Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him, “When you grow up, you should not be president. It's a tiring job. ”
1．How many American presidents are mentioned (提到) in this passage?
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A．Four. |
B．Five. |
C．Six. |
D．Seven. |
2．Who regarded the jobs of U. S. presidents as the tiring ones?
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A．Grant. |
B．Roosevelt. |
C．Eisenhower. |
D．Taft. |
3．In this passage, “keep an eye on”means ________.
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A．take care of |
B．see |
C．look at fixedly |
D．stare at |
4．The second paragraph mainly tells up ________.
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A．that Eisenhower became famous in the 2nd World War
B．how Grant became a general
C．that Grant and Eisenhower were both schoolmates
D．that many of the U. S. presidents had served in the army
5．Which of the following is true?
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A．Eisenhower was one of the U. S. presidents in the 19th century.
B．Lincoln was elected the U. S. president after Grant.
C．West Point Military Academy was founded in the 2nd World War.
D．Washington was born in a very poor family.
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