3 . Can you imagine just completing a life-saving training course and then having to test out your skills the very next day - on your best friend? 16-year-old Torri’ell Norwood was behind the wheel of her car when another driver hit her car. The crash made the car containing Norwood and her three passengers go across someone’s front lawn (草坪) and hit a tree.
The impact jammed Norwood’s side door shut, so she climbed out of the front window. Two of her friends also managed to get out of the car unharmed, but the accident caused her friend A’ zarria Simmons to hit her head on the backseat window. “When I turned around, I didn’t see A’ zarria running with us,” said Norwood. “So, I had to run back to the car as fast as I could. She was just sitting there unresponsive.”
And that’s when the training Norwood had just learned kicked in. “A lot of people started to gather around to see what was happening. I started shouting, ‘Back up. She needs space.’” After pulling Simmons from the car, Norwood checked her vital signs. Unable to detect a pulse (脉搏), she immediately began employing the CPR (心肺复苏) techniques she’d so recently learned on Simmons. Doctors arrived shortly and transported Simmons to the nearest hospital.
Norwood, a junior at St. Petersburg’s Lakewood High School, participates in the school’s Athletic Lifestyle Management Academy (ALMA). “We do vital signs and they learn how to take blood pressure and check pulse rates. We have just about 100 students in our academy,” said Erika Miller, Norwood’s teacher.
Miller noted that most of her former students never have the opportunity to use their CPR training until they become nurses or emergency medical technicians. “Not while they are still a student of mine and definitely not within 24 hours,” she said, adding: “It is what every teacher dreams of, you know, that somebody listens, pays attention, and learns something.”
1. What caused the accident?
| A．Three passengers. | B．Another car’s crash. |
| C．Norwood’s side door. | D．Someone’s front lawn. |
2. What can we learn about Simmons?
| A．She cried out for help. | B．She was badly injured. |
| C．She was too scared to move. | D．She climbed out of the front window. |
3. What can be inferred about Lakewood High School’s ALMA?
| A．It inspires students’ sense of adventure. |
| B．It hires medical technicians as teachers. |
| C．It teaches students wilderness survival skills. |
| D．It prepares students for careers in health science. |
4. How did Miller sound in the last paragraph?
| A．Worried and angry. | B．Surprised and proud. |
| C．Confused and anxious. | D．Relieved and grateful. |
