In 1949 my father came back from the war(战争)，like many other soldiers．

    Soon after he came back，my grandmother became very ill．The doctors said that she needed a blood transfusion(输血)at once，or she would not live through(活过)the night．The problem was that Grandmother’s blood type(血型)was AB-，a very strange type．Even today, (1)it was hard to get some because there were no blood banks or flights to transport(运输)blood．None of the family members were that type．My grandmother was dying．

    (2)My father left the hospital in tears to gather(聚集)all the family members so that everyone could say good-bye to her．As my father was driving down the road，he saw a soldier in uniform(制服)trying to hitch-hike(免费搭便车)home．My father stopped and let the soldier get into his car．(3)He was so sad that he didn’t ask the soldier’s name．

    The soldier saw my father’s tears and asked why he(4) ___________ (cry)．Then the soldier told my father to turn the car around and take him to the hospital．He was just my grandmother’s blood type．

    My grandmother lived until 1996，and to this day．(5)No one in our family knew the soldier’s name, but my father often wanted to know：was he a soldier，or an angel in uniform?

任务一：根据短文回答问题：

1．When the writer’s father came back from the war，how was his grandmother?

2．What was his grandmother’ blood type?

3．When did his grandmother die?

任务二：根据要求完成下列任务：

4．请写出(1)句中的真正主语。

5．请将(2)句翻译成汉语。

6．请将(3)句改成同意句。

7．请用(4)处的动词的正确形式填空。

8．请写出(5)句的反意疑问句。

  No one in our family knew the soldier’s name，______________________

In 1949, New China ________ in the world, like ________ sun rising in the east.

A. appeared; a

B. appeared; the

C. was appeared; a

D. was appeared; the

Since 1949, basketball courts ________ everywhere.

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Since 1949, basketball courts ________ everywhere.

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Born in 1949, Diana Nyad took an early interest in swimming as a sport and was a Florida State High School swimming champion（冠军）. Like many young trainers, she had Olympic dreams, but a serious illness prevented her from competing in the Games. The disappointment didn’t stop her from going forward. Instead, she became interested in marathon swimming.
For ten years Nyad devoted herself to becoming one of the world’s best long-distance swimmers. In 1970, she swam a ten-mile marathon in Lake Ontario, setting the women’s record for the course. In 1972 she set another record by swimming 102.5 miles from an island in the Bahamas to the coast of Florida. Then she broke a third record when swimming around Manhattan Island in 1975.
Nyad attempted to swim the distance between Florida and Cuba in 1978. Though the span(跨度) of water is less than 100 miles wide, it is rough and dangerous. After battling(与---作战) the water for two days, she had to give up for the sake of her own health and safety. Even so, she impressed the world with her courage and strong desire to succeed. It did not matter that her swim came up short; she believed she had touched the other shore.
When Nyad ended her career as a swimmer, she continued to try new things---travelling the world as a reporter, writing books and giving public speeches about her life. Diana Nyad works to inspire others, just as she did when she swam the waters of the world.
【小题1】What was Nyad’s early interest?
【小题2】When did Nyad set the record for a ten-mile marathon swimming?
【小题3】According to the passage, how many times did Nyad join the long-distance swimming?
【小题4】What did Nyad do after she finished swimming?
【小题5】What can we learn from the passage?