1 . 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, _________ the pool and suddenly screamed. 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.”
1. A.encounter | B.gathering | C.union | D.game |
2. A.trace | B.symptom | C.footprint | D.signal |
3. A.found | B.reviewed | C.fixed | D.scanned |
4. A.lying | B.floating | C.sinking | D.diving |
5. A.initial | B.typical | C.creative | D.effective |
6. A.rolled | B.knocked | C.checked | D.ran |
7. A.point | B.edge | C.stage | D.spot |
8. A.accessible | B.abundant | C.apparent | D.significant |
9. A.took up | B.took in | C.took place | D.took over |
10. A.performing | B.working | C.testing | D.stretching |
11. A.maintained | B.adapted | C.monitored | D.tracked |
12. A.faded | B.changed | C.returned | D.revealed |
13. A.pool | B.scene | C.route | D.court |
14. A.courage | B.kindness | C.persistence | D.decisiveness |
15. A.actually | B.fairly | C.finally | D.simply |