54．It's not unusual for parents to stay with sick children round the clock．But the floor nurses noticed something special about Kathy．She was always smiling even on days when Michael was very ill or received bad news about blood tests．"It was never about Kathy or the sacrifices she was making，"says Debra，one of Michael's nurses．"She never let Michael see how hard this was on her．"
One day，Michael told one of the nurses，F(xiàn)elice，that he was so impressed by what she and the other nurses did，he planned to enroll in the nursing program when he was healthy enough to go back to college．
Michael always believed he would conquer the disease．He'd done so with other hurdles in his life．Born a premature （早產(chǎn)的嬰兒），he overcame a learning disability and was admitted into a regular classroom by the third grade．Despite good grades，he did poorly on his SATs，the college entrance exam．He gave up a trip to take a summer prep program at Widener University，south of Philadelphia，then entered as a freshman that fall．He was always told he was too short to play sports，yet he managed to become a linebacker （后衛(wèi)球員） on Widener's DivisionⅢfootball team．
When the third round of chemo （化療） was finished，Michael returned home to await the results．A few weeks later，Kathy and Matthew were extremely sad when Selina Luger，the doctor in charge of Michael's illness，pulled them aside in the hall of the clinic，out of Michael's earshot，and told them，"The chemo didn't work．Michael's incurable．"
Matthew was shell-shocked at the news．Like his son，he always believed they would beat this．This can't be the end of it，he tried to convince himself．Kathy wept against a hallway window while Dr．Luger and Matthew walked into an exam room．
（1）We can learn from the first paragraph that
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A．Kathy didn't care about her son's illness
B．Kathy made few sacrifices for her son's illness
C．Kathy cared much about her son's illness but never showed her anxiety
D．Kathy didn't feel sad despite her son's illness
（2）How many hurdles in Michael's life are mentioned in the passage？
A．Two．
B．Three．
C．Four．
D．Five．
（3）What do we know about Michael from the passage？
A．He was born with the deadly disease．
B．He enrolled in the nursing program before he went to college．
C．He did well in his study in high school．
D．He acted as a linebacker just because he was too tall．
（4）We can conclude from the passage that Michael's father
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A．thought his son would make a recovery
B．was disappointed with his son's disease
C．was sure that his son would be better very soon
D．doubted if his son would be well．
