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Besides calling 911, here is what to do in some life-threatening emergencies when no one is around to help.

             Lost in the wilderness

First, you’ve got to acknowledge you’re in trouble. Stay where you can be seen clearly and remember to rest. Keeping a sense of humor helps too — it reduces stress and helps creative thinking. In a wide open area, make a colorful cross out of rocks to show your present position.

Choking

   

Aim to hit the top of the chair against your stomach, in the soft part below the bony upside-down V of the ribs (肋骨). Make a sudden push against the chair. If you still can’t breathe after six tries, call 911, even if you can’t talk. Write the word choking somewhere nearby, and leave the line open until help arrives.

Severe bleeding

Use your hand or clean cotton, or paper towels, or a scarf, or any cloth you can find, and push down on the wound until the bleeding stops. But if you put a band around your leg tightly, you’re going to close the vessels (血管) to the entire leg. In this way, you could lose your foot.

   

Bear attack

   

If you surprise a bear, don’t run away. That invites an attack. Instead, stand up and back away slowly, without looking the bear in the eyes. If it does charge at you, stick out your chest, raise your arms, and spread your legs. Shout at the bear, to frighten it. If it’s going to attack, lie facedown, with your hands held firmly behind your neck. Play dead until you’re sure the bear

is gone.
1. When you see a colorful cross made of rocks in the wilderness, you know .

A．someone is bleeding	B．someone is choking
C．someone is lost	D．someone is attacked by a bear

2. If you are still choking after six tries, you should         .

A．keep a sense of humor	B．call 911 and leave the line open
C．use your hand our clean cotton	D．lie down with your hands behind your neck

3. Don’t tie around your bleeding leg tightly, or you could        .

A．stop bleeding	B．reduce stress
C．lose your foot	D．cause breathlessness

4. The passage is mainly teaching us how to      .

A．survive the emergencies	B．avoid a bear attack
C．deal with a choke	D．find our way

【推荐2】Listen carefully; we would like to tell you something that could save your precious time and money! Best of all, it is free! It’s ‘no’. What do you ask? We’ll say it again. ‘No’. Sweet and simple ‘no’.

Say ‘no’ at your office and see how quickly that pile of work on your desk disappears. “Saying ‘no’ to others means you are saying ‘yes’ to yourself,” said Leslie Charles, a professional speaker from East Lansing, Michigan.

Susie Watson, a famous writer, said people who always say ‘yes’ need to say ‘no’ without guilt （内疚）or fear of punishment. “I would rather have someone give me a loving ‘no’ than an obligated （强制的）‘yes’”, she said.

Susie Watson says she feels ‘no’ obligation to give an explanation when she says ‘no’ either socially or professionally. Does she feel guilty about it? “Not at all,” said Watson, who is director of advertising and public relations at Timex Corp in Middle-bury. “Most people are afraid of saying ‘no’. My advice is to say ‘yes’ only if you don’t mean ‘no’.”

Watson said ‘no’ is the most effective weapon against wasting time. “Every year there are more demands on your time. Other people are happy to use up your time,” Watson said. Time saving appears to be ‘no’s’ greatest friend. ‘No’ can be your new friend, a powerful tool to take back your life. ‘No’ may even take you further in the business world than “yes”. ‘No’ is power and strength. ‘No’ now seems completely correct. “Saying ‘no’ isn’t easy. But finally it’s greatly liberating,” Charles said. But, he added, a ‘no’ project needs to be worked on every day because it is hard to change long-term habit.

But, he also warns: “Don’t go to extremes. Don’t find yourself saying ‘no’ to everything. In return you should learn to hear ‘no’.”

1. The underlined part in the second paragraph means ______.

A．you can have more time to play with others

B．you needn’t care about other’s feeling if you are happy

C．you are selfish and treat others rudely

D．you can deal with your business as you have planned

2. When you say ‘no’ to others you should say it in a ______.

A．secret way

B．polite way

C．proud way

D．guilty way

3. In Watson’s opinion, people can save much time on condition that ______.

A．they say ‘no’ at a suitable time	B．they say ‘no’ as much as possible
C．they are afraid of saying ‘no’	D．they make others angry at them

4. If a person says ‘no’ to everything, the result he or she receives may be that he or she _____.

A．enjoys a wonderful life	B．makes a lot of money
C．faces difficulty in life	D．forgets to say ‘yes’ in the end