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、感受與評價
1. 今天算是從語音語調的層面對語篇進行復習，也是學習了二十多天的音標和句子后第一次回到整體語篇來進行朗讀練習。剛開始時還是不大習慣，總想著要放慢速度去把一個個單詞讀準確，但想起s老師說的那句話，現在要回到句子節奏、語音語調層面來練習，突破長久的單詞練習和單句練習帶來的疲憊和枯燥感。所以有意識提醒自己，關注句子的節奏、強弱、升降調，有意識去揣摩和模仿。讀著讀著，頭腦中突然浮現了那些單句練習日子里的場景，那些容易讀錯的單詞，連讀、爆破和弱讀的地方，都像是打了標記一樣呈現在眼前。我知道過去那些日子里的練習還是烙下了深深的印痕。在這時也才體會到那句話“你必須非常努力，才能看上去毫不費力”的深意。
四、練習時間統計：1h /29.5 h
