单项选择题 根据下列文章,请回答 41～45 题。 Brain-dead Mother Dies after Giving Birth Abrain-dead woman who was kept alive for three months SO she could deliver the child she was carrying was removed from life support on Wednesday and died．a day after giving birth．“This is obviously a bittersweet time for our family。”Justin Torres，the woman’s brother-in-law。said In a statement．Susan Torres，a cancer—stricken，26-year-old researcher at the National institutes of Health，suffered a stroke in May after the melanoma(黑瘤)spread to her brain．Her family decided to keep her alive to give her foetus(胎儿)a chance．It became a race between the foetus’development and the cancer that was destroying the woman’s body．Doctors said that Torres’ health was getting worse and that the risk of harm to the foetus finally outweighed the benefits of extending the pregnancy．Torres gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section(剖腹产手术)on Tuesday at Virginia Hospital Center．The baby was two months premature and weighed about；a kilogram．She was in the newborn intensive care unit．Dr Donna Tilden-Archer，the hospital’s director of neonatology(新生儿学)，described the child as “very vigorous．”She said the baby had responded when she received stimulation，indicating she was healthy．Doctors removed Torres from life support early Wednesday with the consent of her husband，Jason Torres，after she received the final sacrament(圣礼)of the Roman Catholic Church．“We thank all of those who prayed and provided support for Susan，the baby and our family。”Jason Torres said in a statement．“We especially thank God for giving US little Susan．My wife’s courage will never be forgotten．”English—language medical literature contains at least 11 cases since 1979 0f irreversibly brain-damaged women whose lives were prolonged for the benefit of the developing foetus，according to the University of Connecticut Health Center．Dr Christopher McManus，who coordinated care for Susan Torres，put the infant’s chances of developing cancer at less than 25 per cent．He said l9 women who have had the same aggressive form. of melanoma as Torres have given birth．and five of their babies became ill with the disease第41题：Susan Torres died soon afterA．she suffered a strokeB．she became brain-deadC．she was diagnosed with cancerD．she gave birth to a baby

单项选择题 Passage Two：Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. When school officials in Kalkaska, Michigan, closed classes last week, the media flocked to the story, portraying the town’s 2,305 students as victims of stingy (吝啬的) taxpayers. There is some truth to that; the property-tax rate here is one-third lower than the state average. But shutting their schools also allowed Kalkask’s educators and the state’s largest teachers’ union, the Michigan Education Association, to make a political point. Their aim was to spur passage of legislation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state’s share of school funding.It was no coincidence that Kalkaska shut its schools two weeks after residents rejected a 28 percent property-tax increase. The school board argued that without the increase it lacked the $1.5 million needed to keep schools open.But the school system had not done all it could to keep the schools open. Officials declined to borrow against next year’s state aid, they refused to trim extra curricular activities and they did not consider seeking a smaller—perhaps more acceptable—tax increase. In fact, closing early is costing Kalkaska a significant amount, including $600,000 in unemployment payments to teachers and staff and $250,000 in lost state aid. In February, the school system promised teachers and staff two months of retirement payments in case schools closed early, a deal that will cost the district $275,000 more.Other signs suggest school authorities were at least as eager to make a political statement as to keep schools open. The Michigan Education Association hired a public relations firm to stage a rally marking the school closing, which attracted 14 local and national television stations and networks. The president of the National Education Association, the MEA’s parent organization, flew from Washington, D. C., for the event. And the union tutored school officials in the art of television interviews. School supervisor Doyle Disbrow acknowledges the district could have kept schools open by cutting programs but denies the moves were politically motivated.Michigan lawmakers have reacted angrily to the closings. The state Senate has al ready voted to put the system into receivership (破产管理) and reopen schools immediately; the Michigan House plans to consider the bill this week.第26题：We learn from the passage that schools in Kalkaska, Michigan, are funded ________.A) by both the local and state governmentsB) exclusively by the local governmentC) mainly by the state governmentD) by the National Education Association

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