Question

Many hospitals have blood banks. In these banks, blood of all types is stored. When blood is needed, it is taken from the bank. Healthy people then give blood to the bank to replace (取代) the blood that is used. Blood can be kept in the fridge for about three weeks with a kind of chemical.

When people lose much of their blood because of operations or accidents, they may need transfusions(输血). Some people may need transfusions because of illness. Sometimes only a part of the blood is used for transfusions. Plasma(血浆), the liquid part of the blood , may be given alone. Transfusions of plasma are often given when people have been badly burned.

When a person gets a transfusion, he gets blood of the same type as his. Or there may be a bad reaction(反应). To make it safer, before a transfusion is given, the blood to be used must be tested with the blood of the person who is to receive it. This testing is called cross matching of the blood.

Oswald Robertson, an American doctor, was the first one to give transfusions. He used blood that had been stored for some time to help wounded soldiers in 1918 in World War One.

1.Blood banks usually have ______.

A. only one type of blood

B. one or two types of blood

C. two or three types of blood

D. all types of blood

2.Blood banks get blood from ______.

A. healthy people                 B. operations

C. accidents                      D. transfusions

3.Before a transfusion, it is important to make sure that ______.

A. the blood is cold

B. the blood has been stored long enough

C. the blood is from people who have accidents

D. the type of blood to be used is the same as the patient’s

4.This passage wants to tell us ______.

A. who Oswald Robertson was

B. the first transfusions

C. how blood banks works

D. what blood banks are like

Answer

1.D

2.A

3.D

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：短文大意：许多医院有血库。在这些血库中,存储着所有类型的血。这些血液来自于健康的人。血液可以被保存在冰箱里大约三个星期。当人们因为手术或事故失去他们的血液, ,他们可能需要输血。有些人因为疾病可能需要输血。有时只用于输血的血液的一部分。当一个人需要输血,血液必须与他的是相同类型的。

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