单选题 You have been badly injured in a car accident. It is necessary to give you a blood transfusion (输血) because you lost a great deal of blood in the accident. However, special care must be taken in selecting new blood for you. If the blood is too different from your own, the transfusion could kill you.
There are four basic types of blood: A, B, AB and O. A simple test can indicate a person's blood type. Everybody is born with one of these four types of blood. Blood type, like hair color and height, is inherited from parents.
Because of substances contained in each type, the four groups must be transfused carefully. Basically, A and B cannot be mixed. A and B cannot receive AB, but AB may receive A or B. O can give to any other group; hence, it is often called the universal donor (通用献血者). For the opposite reason, AB is sometimes called universal recipient. However, because so many reactions can occur in transfusions, patients usually receive only salt or plasma (liquid) until their blood can be matched as exactly as possible in the blood bank of a hospital. In this way, it is possible to avoid any bad reactions to the transfusion.
There is a relationship between your blood type and your nationality. Among Europeans and people of European ancestry, about 42 percent have type A while 45 percent have type O. The rarest is type AB. Other races have different percentages. For example, some American Indian groups have nearly100 percent type O.

单选题 If the blood is too different from your own in blood transfusion, ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题询问如果输入与自己完全不同的血液,结果会怎么样。根据原文(41)处可知,如果血型完全不同,会导致被输血者死亡,故选C。
单选题 People with type B blood can receive blood type ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题询问B型血的人可以接受哪种血型的血。根据原文(42)处可知,B型血只能接受同血型血或者O型血,故选D。
单选题 If you need a transfusion, the best and safest blood for you is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题询问如果你需要输血,最佳的、最安全的方法是什么。根据原文(43)处可知,与其输入一些盐剂和血浆使你的血与输入的血相同,倒不如找到与自己完全匹配的血型,故选B。
单选题 Which of the following statements is TRUE?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 本题询问下列哪个陈述是正确的。根据原文(44)处可知,血型与民族之间是有联系的,A选项错误;血型是遗传的,C选项错误;在欧洲人及其后裔中,最罕见的血型是AB型而不是O型,D选项错误,故选B。
单选题 The passage is mainly about ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题询问该篇文章的主要内容是什么。根据全文可知,本文主要讨论了人的血型,故选C。