专题07 阅读表达10篇(第一期)-备战2024年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(天津专用)

备战2024年高考英语名校模拟真题速递(天津专用) 第一期 专题07 阅读表达10篇 （2023·天津河西·统考二模）阅读下面短文，并根据短文内容完成下列各题。 At the age of 15, Roxanne Black-Weisheit was told that she got lupus, a systemic autoimmune (自身免疫) disease that occurs when one’s body’s immune system attacks the healthy tissues and organs. Shortly after, Black-Weisheit desperately sought emotional support. She wanted a friend who could truly understand her situation, and she figured there were others who needed this, too. So, during her first year of college, she created Friends’ Health Connection (FHC), a non-profit organization that helped people with similar health conditions. As she was starting FHC, lupus was destroying her kidney function. During her senior year of college, she had her first kidney transplant and 13 years later, she had her second one. Through it all, she didn’t forgo FHC. She’d even transformed her hospital room into an “office” and worked in her hospital bed. After graduation, she secured enough funding to continue growing her organization, and it became her full-time job. But, unfortunately, lupus and kidney transplants weren’t the end of Black-Weisheit’s health issues. Five years ago, at 42, she had lymphoma. Black-Weisheit’s new disease left her extremely weak and tired, and she knew she had to make a choice about FHC． “Since my time and energy were limited and my future was uncertain, the board and I decided to close our office. I wanted to devote all my energy to keeping my family life as normal as possible,” she explained. Her career didn’t end there, though. When she started feeling better, she felt the urge to start working again. Using her experience from FHC, she started a new company — Schedule Authors.com, which helps other companies schedule different types of speakers for their events. This is now Black-Weisheit’s current job. But she missed running her own non-profit organization, so she started trying to figure out how to bring back FHC． And, recently, she received some great news: A past FHC