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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 (血浆) that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anemia (贫血症). 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 added up to a total of 984 donations. When he started donating, his blood was regarded 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 promise to be a donor aged 14 after taking 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 (疫苗) called Anti-D. After his blood type was discovered, Mr. Harrison volunteered to have 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. 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 underlined sentence (in Paragraph 5) suggests that . | ||||||||||||||
A. babies suffer permanent brain damage before their birth B. the mother and the baby have different types of blood 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. Some of the tests to develop the vaccine are dangerous. B. His wife Barbara needed to be taken care of badly then. C. Mr. Harrison was glad to help develop a new vaccine. D. His blood type was accidentally discovered after tests. | ||||||||||||||
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I devote myself to music because of my grandmother. My mom and I lived with grandparents from the time I was two until I was eight. And even then, I was at their house before and after school every day while my mother was 1 . Grandma loved music. It was she that first 2 me to Elvis Presley as a very young child, and once I heard his music, I was truly in 3 with it. Most five-year-olds ask for 4 for birthdays, but I wanted Elvis" albums. I would play them non-stop and 5 to the music in my grandma"s family room though my movements didn"t look 6 . Grandma played the piano and 7 me to sing "America the Beautiful" and "Somewhere over the Rainbow". I 8 started playing music on the piano, and soon Grandma was paying for me to take piano lessons from a lady living in the 9 . I would come home from 10 and walk there for my lesson. I 11 took about nine months of lessons, but it was enough to give me a(n) 12 and allow me to continue to teach myself. Last month when I came home to visit Grandma in the hospital, I brought along my guitar with me. She was 13 , but the music seemed to 14 her soul. She had me sing some songs and when I started to sing "Somewhere over the Rainbow", her weakened voice 15 in with mine for a few lines. That experience was one of the most 16 of my lifetime and one I will certainly cherish forever. I told her of my music career and she was very 17 and said, "That"s wonderful!" I 18 . to play for her throughout the week I was home. My grandma 19 two days ago. In my opinion, part of her will live on through every 20 I write or sing in my life. | ||||||||||||||
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