On May 2, 2023, the China Cultural Centre in Malta hosted a Traditional Chinese Medicine Workshop
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1. Who is the speaker talking to?
| A．Travellers. | B．Patients. | C．Traders. |
| A．They seldom stay in their offices. |
| B．They always have much to do. |
| C．They take better care of foreigners. |
| A．Check with hotel managers. | B．Ask others for help. | C．Call 911. |
| A．To pay medical bills. | B．To get medical service. | C．To receive health check. |
1. What does the man advise the woman to do?
| A．Have a good rest. | B．Do some sports. | C．Study overnight. |
| A．He’s a coach. | B．He’s a doctor. | C．He’s a student. |
1. What did Clara do during the Civil War?
| A．She joined the army. |
| B．She helped the wounded. |
| C．She urged people to stop the war. |
| A．To collect money. |
| B．To set up the Red Cross. |
| C．To search for missing soldiers. |
| A．In 1873. | B．In 1881. | C．In 1912. |
| A．52 years old. | B．60 years old. | C．91 years old. |
| A．His horse is fine. | B．He is in good health. | C．He has passed the driving test. |
6 . A blocked airway can kill someone in three to four minutes, but it can take more than eight minutes for an ambulance to arrive. So a simple procedure such as opening someone’s airway can save their life while they’re waiting for emergency medical help. This means you’re more likely to give first aid to someone you know than a stranger.
There are many misconceptions surrounding first aid. Below are the “most popular” ones with details of what you should do.
Top four first aid misconceptions:
You should put butter or cream on a burn. The only thing you should put on a burn is cold water—keep the butter for cooking. Put the affected area under cold running water for at least ten minutes.
The best way to treat bleeding is to put the wound under a tap. If you put a bleeding wound under a tap, you wash away the body’s clotting agents (凝血剂) and make it bleed more. Instead, put pressure on the wound with whatever is available to stop or slow down the flow of blood. As soon as possible call 911. Keep pressure on the wound until help arrives.
Nosebleeds are best treated by putting the head back. If you put the head back during a nosebleed, all the blood goes down the back of the airway. Instead, advise them to tilt (倾斜) their head forwards and ask them to pinch (捏) the end of their nose and breathe through their mouth.
You need lots of training to do first aid. You don’t—what you mostly need is common sense. You can learn enough first aid knowledge in a few minutes to save someone’s life—whether it’s from reading a book, attending a course or watching videos online.
Remember that anyone can save a life.
1. The most important point to save an airway blocked person’s life is to __________.| A．keep his airway open |
| B．ensure the ambulance’s arriving time |
| C．keep the surroundings quiet |
| D．ask for emergency medical help immediately |
| A．put some cream on the burn area |
| B．heat up some butter for the burn |
| C．place the burn under cold running water |
| D．cover the affected area |
| A．It will help the bleeding stop at once. |
| B．The wound will help produce more clotting agents. |
| C．It will produce more pressure on the wound. |
| D．The wound will bleed more and it is hard to stop the bleeding. |
| A．How to learn first aid by yourself. |
| B．Some misunderstandings about first aid. |
| C．The importance of first aid. |
| D．How to help medical team. |
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In discussion of technological changes, the Internet gets most of the attention these days.But the change in medicine can be the real technological event of our times. How long can humans live? Human brains were known to decide the final death.Cells(细胞) are the basic units of all living things, and until recently, scientists were sure that the life of cells could not go much beyond 120 years because the basic materials of cells, such as those of brain cells, would not last forever.But the upper limits will be broken by new medicine. Sometime between 2050 and 2100, medicine will have advanced to the point at which every 10 years or so, people will be able to take medicine to repair their organs(器官). The medicine, made up of the basic building materials of life, will build new brain cells, heart cells, and so on—in much the same way our bodies make new skin cells to take the place of old ones.
It is exciting to imagine that the advance in technology may be changing the most basic condition of human existence, but many technical problems still must be cleared up on the way to this wonderful future.
1. According to the passage,human death is now mainly caused by _______.
| A．diseases and aging | B．accidents and war |
| C．accidents and aging | D．heart disease and war |
| A．medicine | B．the Internet |
| C．brain cells | D．human organs |
| A．heart disease will be far away from us |
| B．human brains can decide the final death |
| C．the basic materials of cells will last forever |
| D．human organs can be repaired by new medicine |
| A．human life will not last more than 120 years in the future |
| B．humans have to take medicine to build new skin cells now |
| C．much needs to be done before humans can have a longer life |
| D．we have already solved the technical problems in building new cells |
9 . When somebody gets sick or is hurt in an accident, there are several different ways that doctors can try to help them. One of these is to give medicine that fights the sickness or helps the sick person’s body to fight it. However, if some parts of a body are very sick or damaged, then doctors might need to remove them. Another way doctors can help is to grow new tissue to replace what is sick or damaged. This is called regenerative medicine (再生医学). Regenerative medicine sounds like something from a science fiction movie but it is not a new idea. Inside our bones, we have something called ‘marrow’, which makes our blood and keeps us healthy. Doctors have been giving sick people the ‘bone marrow’ from other healthy people for the last 30 or 40 years, and this is a kind of regenerative medicine.
Newer developments in regenerative medicine include growing new skin in a laboratory and using it to help people who have been hurt in fires or accidents. Another example of regenerative medicine is a technique developed from studying frogs and mice. When cells are old, like in adults, they can’t change what they do in our bodies. For example, a skin cell can’t change into an eye cell. But when cells are very young, they can become any cell type. These young cells are called stem cells, and doctors can use them to grow any type of tissue, such as skin, heart or eye. John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka won the 2012 Nobel Prize for their studies in this area.
Professor Fiona Watt, from the Centre for Regenerative Medicine at King’s College London, believes that regenerative medicine is so exciting because many different kinds of experts need to work together. New bones may be printed by expert 3D printers, who need to work closely with university scientists and the surgeons who do the operations in hospitals.
We cannot yet grow new arms or legs for people, but the science fiction dream of regenerative medicine may be closer than we think. Perhaps in the future, doctors will be able to grow whole new bodies for us.
1. Why is ‘marrow’ in bones very important in regenerative medicine?| A．It can grow into new skin for those who have been hurt in fires. |
| B．It can be used to grow new tissue. |
| C．It makes blood for our body. |
| D．It has been used for 40 years. |
| A．Regenerative medicine is a new science in medicine. |
| B．Fiona Watt and Shinya Yamanaka won the 2012 Nobel Prize for medicine. |
| C．Stem cells, very young cells, can be used to grow any type of tissue. |
| D．Doctors and scientists now cooperate to grow new skin for frogs and mice. |
| A．Pessimistic. | B．Optimistic. |
| C．Doubtful. | D．Subjective. |
10 . Everyone takes drugs. Sometimes a drug might be called a herb but the effect is the same. Drugs and herbs can make life better for they are used to improve health. From the simplest headache to a cure for cancer, people believe that certain drugs can help them. But there is danger if the drugs are not used in a proper way.
American teenagers sometimes use certain drugs to feel good. They call this “getting high”. The problem is that once a young man or a young woman has the feeling of “getting high”, they want to do it often. If school is boring or too hard, students might get depressed and a drug or herb might help them feel better. If the student takes too much of a drug, the body may change in a wrong way such as a confused mind, poor sight, a headache, and an uncomfortable stomach.
Schools now have D．A．R．E．program which means Drug Abuse Resistance Education. This program was started so that young students from age 10 to 18 might understand how a drug affects their bodies. The main point of the program is education. Once a student understands certain drugs can cause ill health, he will know he should not use them.
Education is the key to good nutrition as well. If a student eats correctly, he or she will be full of energy which leads to good study habits and good grades. Poor nutrition may cause the need for more sleep and poor concentration. Proper food is similar to the proper use of drugs. Both allow a healthy body to grow while misuse of them prevents a person from developing normally.
1. What does the underlined phrase “getting high” mean?| A．flying a lot | B．feeling good |
| C．getting excited | D．falling asleep |
| A．drug abuse is a popular phenomenon |
| B．drug is actually a common medicine |
| C．good eating habit may help students keep from drugs |
| D．teenagers always need to seek for excitement |
| A．manage and control drugs |
| B．explain to teenagers what drug is |
| C．stop teenagers taking drugs |
| D．help teenagers know about the harm of drugs |
| A．Drug awareness |
| B．Good eating habit |
| C．Popular drug abuse in America |
| D．Why students take drugs? |
