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（血漿）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 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 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.What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?

A．mothers          B．babies            C．dollars            D．blood

2.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

3.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

4.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

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.D

3.A

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：

1.B 推理題。根據文章第一段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. 說明他已經救了2百多萬的兒童。故稱他為man in two million。B說法正確。

2.D 推理題。根據第四段最后2行“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.” 以及第四段內容可知他做了手術以后，是別人的血救了他的命，所以他決定鮮血來回報別人，故D正確。

3.A 推理題。根據本句The disease creates an incompatibility between the mother's blood and her unborn baby's blood.說明這種病讓孩子還母親之間的血型不一致，產生了很多不好的情況，故A的說法正確。

4.C 推斷題。根據第六段3,4行“They insured me for a million dollars so I knew my wife Barbara would be taken care of說明這樣的實驗是有一定的危險性的，所以別人才給他報了巨額的保險，以保證他的妻子能得到很好的照顧。故C說法正確。

考點：考查新聞報告類短文閱讀

點評：本文是一篇新聞報告類短文閱讀，介紹了澳大利亞的一位有稀有血型的男子，在56年里獻血救了2百萬人的性命。以推理題的考查為主，要求考生能根據上下文的語義串聯以及題目的要求結合選項做出合理的判斷推理。