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第+周Week Eighteen@
第十八周
Week Eighteen
Monday
◆答案P218
■阅读理解
红斑狼疮
©关键词:lupus
©体裁:科普
©词数:336
@难度:4
@建议时间:8
@正确率:/4
Everyone should be so lucky as to have a
to three times more common among women of
friend like Francia Raisa.On Thursday,singer
color,including Hispanic women,according to
and actress Selena Gomez,25,used Instagram
the Lupus Foundation.
to explain why she was“laying low”this
Raisais Latina,and Gomez's father is of
summer.She posted a photo of herself in a
Mexican origin.While it's not essential that the
hospital bed with her friend Francia Raisa
organ donator and receiver be of the same
holding hands.She said she recently received a
ethnicity,people who share a similar
kidney transplant from her best friend because
background sometimes are better matched,
of'complications from lupus(狼疮),an
according to data from the United Network for
autoimmune disease,which means it is the
Organ Sharing.
result of the immune system attacking normal
1.What can we learn about Francia Raisa?
tissue,including the kidneys,brain,heart and
A.She is lucky.B.She is selfless.
lungs.
!
C.She is optimistic.D.She is encouraging
People with lupus may first experience
2.What is lupus like at its early stage?
tiredness,joint pain or a little bit of rash on
A.It is deadly.
their bodies and can go for a long time before
B.It is hard to recognize.
their doctors realize it is more serious.Many
C.Its symptoms are psychological.
people see two or four doctors before the real
D.It reminds you of a kidney disease.
problem is picked up.According to Dr.
3.What does the underlined word“them”in
Kyriakos Kirou,roughly a third to one-half of
Paragraph 2 refer to?
people with lupus develop kidney disease,and
A.People with lupus.
up to one in five of them will eventually need a
B.Colored women lupus patients.
transplant,sometimes because they weren't
C.Lupus patients with kidney disease.
treated with effective drugs to prevent the
D.Women between the ages of 15 to 44.
immune system from attacking the k