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Mary Josephine Ray,the New Hampshire woman,who was the oldest person living in the United States,has died at age 114 years,294 days.She died yesterday at a nursing home in Westmoreland but was active until about two weeks before her death,her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.
“She just enjoyed life.She never thought of dying at all,”Katherine Ray said.“She was planning for her birthday party.”
Ray was the oldest person in the United States and the second oldest in the world,according to the Gerontology Research Group.She was also recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.
Ray was born on May 17,1895,in Bloomfield,Prince Edward Island,Canada.She moved to the United States at the age of 3.She lived for 60 years in Anson,Maine.She lived in Florida,Massachusetts and elsewhere in New Hampshire before she moved to Westmoreland in 2002 to be near her children.Ray’s husband,Walter,died in 1967.Survivors include 2 sons,8 grandchildren,13 greatgrandchildren and 5 greatgreat grandchildren.
The oldest living American is now Neva Morris of Ames,Iowa,at age 114 years,216 days.The oldest person in the world is Japan’s Kama Chinen at age 114 years,301 days.Morris,the Iowa woman now believed to be the oldest US resident (居民),lives at a care center.Only one of her four children,a son in Sioux City,is still alive.
6.What is the best title for this passage?
A.The oldest person in the US died at age 114.
B.The oldest person in the US died for no reason.
C.The oldest person in the US wanted to live longer.
D.The oldest person in the US was happy at a nursing home.
7.Which of the following statements about Mary Josephine Ray is WRONG?
A.She was born on May 17,1895,in Canada.
B.She died at the age of 114 years,294 days.
C.She was still very active in her last two weeks.
D.She was not at her own home when she died.
8.From what Katherine Ray said,we can learn Mary Josephine Ray________.
A.didn’t know how to enjoy life
B.didn’t like holding a birthday party
C.was afraid nobody would come to her birthday party
D.was not troubled by the thought of dying
9.What can we learn from Paragraph 4?
A.Mary Josephine Ray liked moving.
B.Mary Josephine Ray lived a very hard life.
C.Mary Josephine Ray had a very big family.
D.Mary Josephine Ray lived with her children until 2002.
10.According to the passage,who is the oldest person in the world?
A.Mary Josephine Ray. B.Neva Morris.
C.Kama Chinen. D.Walter.
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1.He developed the BASIC language for the first microcomputer and improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers.
2.During his lifetime, he had over 1000 inventions, most of which changed the world.
3.He is a great thinker. Many Chinese people are still influenced by his thoughts today.
4. He was a doctor. In 1938 he came to China from Canada to help the Chinese and died the next year after he operated on a Chinese wounded soldier.
5.He is one of the Chinese famous persons. He is the first astronaut who flew into space in China. We are proud of him!
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1.He developed the BASIC language for the first microcomputer and improved the software to make it easier for people to use computers.
2.During his lifetime, he had over 1000 inventions, most of which changed the world.
3.He is a great thinker. Many Chinese people are still influenced by his thoughts today.
4.He was a doctor. In 1938 he came to China from Canada to help the Chinese and died the next year after he operated on a Chinese wounded soldier.
5.He is one of the Chinese famous persons. He is the first astronaut who flew into space in China. We are proud of him!
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During the war, a young soldier's plane was shot at, and he was badly wounded(伤). He landed(着陆)his plane in a forest(森林)and escaped(逃生). He 1 to make his way out of the forest, but at last he walked deeper and deeper into 2 . As he 3 around, he came to an old house. It seemed 4 to see a lonely house in the heart of the forest. But, he thanked God for bringing him good 5 .
An old couple lived in the old house. They 6 the soldier in and nursed him carefully back to 7 . They took good care of him, as if he were their own son. When he was 8 recovered(康复), they told him how to get out of the forest. He thanked them and 9 to visit them again.
The soldier went back to camp and told his captain of the old couple's kindness to him. The soldier was 10 when the captain told him that the forest had been destroyed (摧毁) by bombs(炸弹)much earlier in the war. The old couple were officially(官方地)listed as dead in their records(纪录). Their son was one of their young soldiers ,and had died in the war.
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