一、原材料引用:
This is the VOASpecial English Health Report.
Cardiopulmonaryresuscitation, or CPR, can save the life of someone whose heart has
stopped. Thecondition is called cardiac arrest. The heart stops pumping blood. The
person stopsbreathing. Without lifesaving measures, the brain starts to die within four
to six minutes.
CPR combinesbreathing into the victim's mouth and repeated presses on the chest.
CPR keeps bloodand oxygen flowing to the heart and brain.
However, a newJapanese study questions the usefulness of mouth-to-mouth
breathing.
The study waspublished in the British medical magazine, The Lancet. Doctors in Tokyo
led the research.It examined more than four thousand people who had suffered
cardiac arrest. Inall the cases, witnesses saw the event happen.
More than onethousand of the victims received some kind of medical assistance from
witnesses. Sevenhundred and twelve received CPR. Four hundred and thirty-nine
received chestpresses only. No mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths were given to them.
The researcherssay any kind of CPR improved chances of the patient's survival. But,
they said thosepeople treated with only chest presses suffered less brain damage.
Twenty-two percentsurvived with good brain ability. Only ten percent of the victims
treated withtraditional CPR survived with good brain ability.
The American HeartAssociation changed its guidelines for CPR chest presses in two
thousand five. Itsaid people should increase the number of chest presses from fifteen
to thirty forevery two breaths given.
Gordon Ewy is aheart doctor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.
He wrote a reportthat appeared with the study. Doctor Ewy thinks the CPR guidelines
should be changedagain. He said the heart association should remove rescue breaths
from theguidelines.
He argues thatmore witnesses to cardiac arrests would provide treatment if rescue
breaths are not apart of CPR. He says this would save lives. Studies show that many
people do not wantto perform mouth-to-mouth breathing on a stranger for fear of
getting a disease.
Cardiac arrestkills more than three hundred thousand people in the United States
every year. TheAmerican Heart Association says about ninety-five percent of victims
die before theyget to a medical center.
And that's the VOASpecial English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver. I’m Bob
Doughty.
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三、感受与评价
1. 今天算是从语音语调的层面对语篇进行复习，也是学习了二十多天的音标和句子后第一次回到整体语篇来进行朗读练习。刚开始时还是不大习惯，总想着要放慢速度去把一个个单词读准确，但想起s老师说的那句话，现在要回到句子节奏、语音语调层面来练习，突破长久的单词练习和单句练习带来的疲惫和枯燥感。所以有意识提醒自己，关注句子的节奏、强弱、升降调，有意识去揣摩和模仿。读着读着，头脑中突然浮现了那些单句练习日子里的场景，那些容易读错的单词，连读、爆破和弱读的地方，都像是打了标记一样呈现在眼前。我知道过去那些日子里的练习还是烙下了深深的印痕。在这时也才体会到那句话“你必须非常努力，才能看上去毫不费力”的深意。
四、练习时间统计：1h /29.5 h
