Donna Simpson weighs more than 600 pounds and aims to reach 1，000 pounds．The New Jersey woman is carrying a series of activities to become the world’s fattest living woman，admitting that she is as hungry for attention as she is for calorie-rich food．
Donna，who wears XXXXXXXL dresses, eats pounds of junk food and tries to move as little as possible．The 42-year-old woman is a model on a website，where admirers and the curious can pay to watch videos of her eating food or walking to the car．She appeared in TV interviews and
said she welcomed media coverage．
Simpson has submitted a claim to the Guinness World Records for the title of the world’s heaviest woman to give birth．Among the heaviest women ever recorded was one who reportedly weighed 1，800 pounds and another who reportedly weighed 1,200 pounds at the time of their
deaths．   
You might expect her husband to advise her to lose weight，but it is the other way round．To achieve her goal，Donna says she will need to eat up to 12，000 calories a day，compared to 2000 calories that a normal woman needs．
When she came across the website which made very fat women widely known，she came to know there were many women faced with the same problems．And after she admitted her real size，e-mails from people poured in．They sent her gifts through the post，expressing their care
for her．Donna was not feeling sorry for her goal，though she might risk her own life in the process．However, some have a different voice in Donna’s behavior．They hold that it is more important to do something useful than to become popular．After all，there are so many children faced with the shortage of food throughout the world．
小題1:. . One reason why Donna Simpson wants to be the heaviest woman is that         .
A．she is fond of challenging herself
B．she wants to advertise for food
C．she is crazy about public attention
D．she hopes to make fat women confident
小題2:. . We can learn from the passage that          ．
A．Simpson is much fatter than any other woman
B．Simpson’s videos can be watched on the Internet
C．Simpson has broken the Guinness World Record
D．Simpson’s husband is strongly against her plan
小題3:. . What can we infer from the passage?
A．Simpson will go on a diet to keep fit
B．There’s no way for one to reach 1000 pounds
C．Most people take pity on Simpson
D．Simpson will take measures to achieve her goal
小題4:. . The author’s attitude towards Donna Simpson would be            ． 
A．negativeB．uncertainC．encouragingD．a(chǎn)nnoying
小題5:. . What would be the best title for the passage?
A．Meet with the fattest person in the world
B．What’s the matter with Donna Simpson?
C．A US woman decided to be the world’s heaviest
D．The super-sized model planned to lose weight

小題1:. C           
小題1:.B
小題1:.D
小題1:.B
小題1:.C
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A．He filled his name on the Jax report quickly.
B．Alex signed his name to the Jax report quickly.
C．He offered the FMA president the Jax report smartly.
D．He prepared the Jax report for Patterton to sign smartly.
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The author planned to stop at Oklahoma City________.
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The words “took off” underlined in Paragraph 2 mean “________”．
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What happened when the author found smoke coming out of his car?
A．He had it pulled back to the gas station.
B．The couple sent him a business card.
C．The couple offered to help him.
D．He called his friend for help.
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The battery of the author’s car was dead because________.
A．something went wrong with the lights
B．the meeting lasted a whole day
C．he forgot to turn off the lights
D．he drove too long a distance
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By telling his own experiences，the author tries to show ________.
A．how to write a thank­you letter
B．how to deal with car problems
C．the kind­heartedness of older people
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Mr. Reese was born in a big city. His father had several companies and got a lot of money. He could give his son all the young man wanted. He was busy with his business and never asked him how he got along with his studies. So the boy spent most time in the restaurants or cinemas. Of course he was weak at his lessons and learned nothing at school. He made many friends but none of them was good and when they knew he came from a rich family, they began to teach him to gamble(賭博). Of course he lost much money.
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A．he was sure his son was good at his lessons
B．he spent all his energies on his business
C．he knew nothing about the education
D．his wife looked after their children
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A．to play with him
B．to spend spare time
C．that the could get much money from him
D．that they could find jobs in his father's companies
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A．him son had learned nothing at school
B．his son was weak at all his lessons
C．his son couldn't do anything in the companies
D．his son had lost one of his companies
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A．he was sentenced to death
B．he would be shot
C．he went to the execution ground on foot
D．he would be shot in bad weather

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