单选题
Tony Huesman, a heart transplant recipient (接受者) who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of leukemia (白血病), but his heart still going strong. "He had leukemia," his widow Carol Huesman said. "His heart—believe it or not—held out. His heart never gave up until the end, when it had to."
Huesman got a heart transplant in 1978 at Stanford University. This was just 11 years after the world"s first heart transplant was performed in South Africa. At his death, Huesman was listed as the world"s longest survivor of a single transplanted heart both by Stanford and Richmond, Virginia-based United Network for Organ Sharing.
"I"m a living proof of a person who can go through a life-threatening illness, have the operation and return to a productive life," Huesman told the Dayton Daily News in 2006.
Huesman worked as marketing director at a sporting-goods store. He was found to have serious heart disease while in high school. His heart, attacked by a pneumonia (肺炎) virus, was almost four times its normal size from trying to pump blood with weakened muscles.
Huesman"s sister, Linda Huesman Lamb, also was stricken with the same problem and received a heart transplant in 1983. The two were the nation"s first brother and sister heart tansplant recipients. She died in 1991 at age 29.
Huesman founded the Huesman Heart Foundation in Dayton, which seeks to reduce heart disease by reducing children and offers a nursing scholarship in honor of his sister.
单选题
Tony Huesman died from ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的依据句是文章的第一句话“Tony Huesman, a heart transplant recipient(接受者) who lived a record 31 years with a single donated organ has died at age 51 of leukemia(白血病), but his heart still going strong.”。非常明确，他死于白血病，而他的心脏还很好。C项的意思为“与心脏无关的疾病”。其他选项明显是错误信息。
单选题
The phrase "held out" (Para. 1) probably means "______".
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 注意“held out”的意思与后面的“His heart never gave up until the end, when it had to”意思一致，再加上前面的“his heart still going strong”，可以得出他的心脏没有问题。A项的意思为“正常发挥作用”，是最佳答案。其他选项意思有误。
单选题
After his heart transplant, Tony Huesman
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解析] 注意第三段第一个句子“I"m a living proof of a person who can go through a life-threatening illness，have the operation and return to a productive life.”，说明手术后他能够正常生活。其他选项的意思都与文章中的意思不符，属于错误信息。
单选题
Huesman had to receive a heart transplant because ______.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 本题的依据句是倒数第三段最后一句话“His heart, attacked by a pneumonia(肺炎) virus, was almost four times its normal size from trying to pump blood with weakened muscles.”。其他选项的内容在文章中都没有提及，属于无关信息。