2 . Emma Jones’ three-year-old son, Eric, was sharing a hot dog on the deck overlooking her friend Sarah Roth’s swimming pool. One moment Jones was watching Eric play around with the other children at this   ________ of moms and kids last July. The next moment he disappeared without a ________. She turned to her friend Machel Rawlings and asked, “Have you seen Eric?”

Rawlings stood, scanned the pool and suddenly ________. Eric was found ________ face down in the deep end. What happened next was a ________ textbook response: As Rawlings dived in the pool, grasped the boy, ________ him over and swam him to the end. Meanwhile, their host, Sarah Roth, dialed 911. At the pool’s ________, Rawlings handed Eric up to his mother. His skin was blue and wasn’t breathing.

Rawlings who’d taken a CPR course just four months earlier, immediately began rescue breathing. Hanging up the phone, Roth, a former flight attendant who’d accumulated ________ experience before,   ________ CPR from Rawlings. Three long minutes went by with Roth breathing into Eric’ s mouth and ________chest compressions (按压) while Rawlings and Jones ________ his condition. Gradually his color ________, and as the ambulance was arriving on the ________, Rawlings looked at Roth. “He’s breathing,” she said.

The ________ with which the women acted saved Eric’s life. Emma Jones found any words seemed powerless. She said ________, “They did everything right.”

3 . There are numerous reasons why people don’t take First Aid training programs.     1     Or they think that accidents happen to other people, not to them or their friends, family and colleagues. But if you ask any individual who has already taken a first aid training program if it was worth it, their answer will be “Yes!” Having some basic first aid knowledge is essential and here are the reasons.

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Having a basic first aid knowledge means that you’ll be confident in your skills and abilities in relation to first aid administration. By taking first aid training, it helps you to reflect on yourself and how you and others react in certain situations. Having this understanding will boost your confidence in a wide range of non-medical day-to-day situations.

It does more than help save lives.

It’s true that having first aid training undoubtedly helps save lives.     3     Giving appropriate first aid immediately can also help to reduce a person’s recovery time and make the difference between the patient having a temporary (短暂的) disability and a long term disability.

It enables you to increase patients’ comfort.

Not all accidents, injuries or illnesses require a trip to the hospital but it doesn’t mean they don’t cause pain and suffering to the patient.     4     By knowing how to act — even just by employing simple techniques such as applying an ice pack correctly, you’ll help to relieve his discomfort.

It gives you tools to prevent the situation from becoming worse.

By being able to provide basic care you can stabilize a patient until emergency medical services arrive. You’ll learn how to use basic household items as tools to cope with many situations. You’ll also be trained in how to collect information and data about what happened and the patients’ condition. This information will be passed on to the emergency services, which saves them time.     5