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1、 世纪金榜 圆您梦想 第 1 页（共 7 页） 山东世纪金榜科教文化股份有限公司2013 届高三英语星级阶梯阅读练习届高三英语星级阶梯阅读练习 三星级三星级 6ABea, 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 diagnose
2、d (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. A
3、fter 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 t
4、o make sure Bea is free from any possible bacteria. Anna, Beas mother, said, “She is weak but so strong. Weve 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 Be
5、a 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 shes dying for such a normal life.”Hearing of Beas story, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has paid for a play park to be buil
6、t 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 diseaseB. she would catch a common cold which would kill her quicklyC
7、. her life would be in great danger as she could fall ill easilyD. she would be lost in playing and forget to receive treatment57. From the passage we can infer that _.A. Bea will need a tube in her nose all the timeB. Bea has to stay in hospital until she is an adultC. Beas parents will send her to
8、 school next yearD. Beas mother feels proud when talking about her58. The Make-A-Wish Foundation had a play park built for Bea to _.A. honor her bravery in fighting against her disease世纪金榜 圆您梦想 第 2 页（共 7 页） 山东世纪金榜科教文化股份有限公司B. call for attention to this immune system deficiency C. encourage more chil
9、dren like Bea to be optimisticD. launch a campaign against this serious disease59. 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 doctors skills and experience.BA di
10、splay of supernatural existence or is it an alien interference? Questions still remain unanswered while experts are still researching on the real reason behind stones of Death Valley that slide by themselves, without the interference of humans or animals. In the southwest of the USA lies this myster
11、ious valleypopular as the hottest and driest location in North America and it consists of a dry lakebed named “Racetrack Playa”. “Sailing Stones” of Death Valley are all over the Racetrack Playa. The playa, a flat bed of mud, witnesses the sailing of such stones on its broken surface. The tracks for
12、med by these sailing stones are usually 2. 5 cm deep and 412 inches wide, and last usually for three to four years. This phenomenon is a mystery and the exact reason is still under research. Some researchers believe a combination of natural events cause these stones to “sail”. This area of Death Val
13、ley can get very cold in the winter nights, causing a layer of ice to form on the baked smooth soil. The rocks are gently pushed across the surface by the ice-coated ground and strong winds. Some researchers question this theory. Some point the conditions have to be just right for these stones to mo
14、ve, perhaps occurring once every one to three years. They say there are some other unknown factors. To add more to this strange phenomenon, these sailing stones dont follow a specific path that could be predicted when ice and wind are present. Some stones that are physically near each other may star
15、t out sailing in a parallel direction, but then one would stop while the other one continues. Other researchers believing that the movements of stones are due to Milky Way. The position of stars create a magnetic structure in a way which makes the stones slide in the valley, just like the tides in oceans which are sometimes caused by the gravitation (万有引力) pull of the moon. So far these mysterious stones and their movements remain unfilmed and unobserved by human eyes. 世纪金榜 圆您梦想 第 3 页（共 7 页） 山东世纪金榜科教文化
