An Australian man who has been donating(捐獻) his extremely rare kind of blood（血液） for 56 years has saved the lives of more than two million babies.
James Harrison has an antibody（抗體） in his plasma(血漿) that stops babies dying from Rhesus disease, a form of severe anaemia(貧血). 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（保險） 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（稀有的） 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(永久的) 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（陽性） blood and the other Rh-negative（陰性）.
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.
小題1:How old is James Harrison?
A．74B．70.C．56D．78
小題2:What does the underlined phrase “two million” refer to?
A．mothersB．babiesC．dollarsD．blood
小題3: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(chǎn) vaccine called Anti-D is to be developed
D．someone else’s blood saved his life
小題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．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．a(chǎn)ll the patients have a rare antibody in their blood
小題5: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.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:A
小題5:C

試題分析：
小題1:A 計算題。根據(jù)第1,3段An Australian man who has been donating(捐獻) his extremely rare kind of blood（血液） for 56 years和Mr. Harrison has been giving blood every few weeks since he was 18 years old 說明他18歲開始鮮血，獻了56年，故現(xiàn)在的74歲。故A正確。
小題2:.B 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第一段第2行has saved the lives of more than two million babies.說明這里的“two million指babies 。故B正確。
小題3:D 細節(jié)題。根據(jù)第四段2,3,4行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.”說明Ｄ正確。
小題4:A 推理題。根據(jù)橫線下一句It stems from one having Rh-positive（陽性） blood and the other Rh-negative（陰性）.可知母親和孩子的血型不一樣，故A正確。
小題5:C 推理題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第三段后三行“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.”給他做了100萬的保險，說明該實驗有一定的危險性，故C正確。
點評：文章介紹了Mr. Harrison的血有很好的治療作用，救助了很多的孩子，而他自從18歲以來就一直在獻血。推理題考查較多，要求考生準確定位，仔細辨析。
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