阅读理解 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 yesterd-高中英语-n多题

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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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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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