1 . A medical emergency can happen anywhere at any time. Taking a brief moment to seek help is often the best first response. But before an ambulance can get to the scene, the immediate first aid attendance to anyone who is injured seriously makes a difference between life and death. Life Saver Team has been providing CPR (心肺复苏术) and first aid training since 2009. Here are a few of their most popular courses:
CPR AED
It is a classroom video-based, instructor-led course that teaches the basic techniques of CPR and the use of an AED (自动体外除颤器), as well as how to relieve choking. This course teaches skills with research proven techniques.
●Course length: 2 hours
●Price: $50 (Sign up for a first aid course for an additional $30)
Upon completion of this course, students will receive an American Heart Association Heart Saver Fist Aid Course Completion Card that is valid (有效的) for two years.
Basic Life Support
This is a classroom course designed to provide a wide variety of healthcare professionals with the ability to recognize several life-threatening emergencies, provide CPR, and relieve choking in a timely and effective manner.
●Course length: 4 hours
●Price: $60 (Sign up for a first aid course for an additional $30)
The American Heart Association BLS for Healthcare Provider Course Completion Card is valid for two years.
First Aid
It is a classroom, video-based, instructor-led course that teaches students critical skills to manage an emergency in the first few minutes until emergency medical services arrive. Students learn skills such as how to treat bleeding, broken bones and other first aid emergencies.
●Course length: 2 hours
●Price: $45
Upon completion of this course, students will receive an American Heart Association Heart Saver CPR AED Course Completion Card that is valid for two years.
1. What should be often done first in a medical emergency?| A．Providing professional first aid. | B．Asking for help at once. |
| C．Taking the injured to the hospital. | D．Leaving the scene as soon as possible. |
| A．$50. | B．$30. | C．$60. | D．$45 |
| A．They are available online. |
| B．They are for all individuals. |
| C．They take the same amount of time. |
| D．They include a two-year AHA certificate. |
2 . “Health is the greatest wealth,” wise people say.
The doctor will examine your throat, test your blood pressure, take your temperature, sound your heart and lungs, check your teeth or have your chest X -rayed.
A month later the gentleman came into the doctor’s office.
| A．He looked cheerful and happy. |
| B．All these will cost a lot of money. |
| C．He was more worried about his illness. |
| D．After that he will advise some treatment of some medicine. |
| E．You can’t be good at your studies or work well when you are ill. |
| F．Speaking about doctor’s advice, I can’t help telling you a funny story. |
| G．He was suggesting the rule “Eat at pleasure, drink with measure and enjoy life as it is.” |
3 . When seeing the doctor, you feel better to know you will get some medicine. But the doctor knows that medicine is not always needed. Sometimes all a sick person needs is some reassurance that all will be well. In such cases the doctor may prescribe a placebo.
A placebo is a sugar pill, a harmless shot, or an empty capsule. The patient thinks it is medicine and begins to get better. How does this happen?
The study of the placebo opens up new knowledge about the way the human body can heal itself. It is as if there was a doctor in each of us. The doctor will heal the body for us if we let it. But it is not yet known just how the placebo works to heal the body. Some people say it works because the human mind fools itself. These people say that if the mind is fooled into thinking it got medicine, then it will act as if it did, and the body will feel better.
Placebos don’t always work. The success of this treatment seems to rest a lot with the relationship between the patient and the doctor. If the patient has lots of trust in the doctor and if the doctor really wants to help the patient, then the placebo is more likely to work. So in a way, the doctor is the most powerful placebo of all.
A placebo can also have bad effects. If patients expert a bad reaction to medicine, then they’ll also show a bad reaction to the placebo. Some doctors still think that if the placebo can have bad effects it should never be used. They think there is still not enough known about it.
The strange power of the placebo does seem to suggest that the human mind is stronger than we think it is. There are people who say you can heal your body by using your mind. And the interesting thing is that even people who swear this is not possible have been healed by a placebo.
1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 5 refer to?| A．The placebo. | B．The bad effect. |
| C．The body. | D．The medicine. |
| A．It contains some sort of medicine |
| B．It won’t function if you are negative about medicine |
| C．People who don’t believe placebo can’t be healed by it |
| D．Patients and doctors know clearly how it helps to heal the body |
| A．Because patient needs help badly. |
| B．Because patient believes in the doctor and the doctor wants to help the patient. |
| C．Because doctor knows better about the patient’s body. |
| D．Because doctor has carefully studied medicine. |
| A．Placebo: Work on Your Mind |
| B．Placebo: The Most Powerful Medicine |
| C．Placebo: The Best Doctor |
| D．Placebo: Heal the Body |
