1、拓展阅读,【文章导读】生活中我们会遇到困难,我们需要朋友的帮助和支持。女孩帕里斯突发心脏病,不省人事,好朋友泰勒挺身而出,用心肺复苏术拯救了她的生命。 It was a cold March day at Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point,North Carolina.Taylor,then 13,had moved to town a few weeks earlier.She was a shy girl from California.But Taylor had quickly made friends on the softball(垒
2、球) team. One of those new friends was Paris White.Taylor and Paris were at softball practice that day.Suddenly,Paris fell to the ground.“Pariss eyes rolled back,” Taylor says.“She started shaking.I knew it was an emergency(紧急情况).” It certainly was.Paris had suffered a sudden heart failure.Without im
3、mediate medical care,Paris would die.,At first,no one moved.Then the softball coach shouted out,“Does anyone know CPR(心肺复苏)?” Amazingly,Taylor had finished her training just the day before.But Taylor wasn t sure if she should help.She didnt think she knew CPR well enough.When no one else came forwar
4、d,Taylor ran to Paris and began doing CPR.“It was the difference between life and death,” she says. Taylors quick action helped her teammates calm down.One girl called 911.Two others ran for the school nurse.The nurse brought a defibrillator,which can shock the heart back to work.Luck stayed with th
5、em:Pariss heartbeat returned. Doctors arrived within minutes and took Paris to the hospital.Taylor stayed on the field with her teammates and she began to worry.“I didn t think Paris would be OK,” Taylor says.Had she done CPR correctly?,Experts say that what matters most is that Taylor helped at all
6、.For a sudden heart failure,the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly.It is more important to do CPR quickly than to do it well.You cant get in trouble for helping someoneeven if you make a mistake.There are laws to protect people who help. Today,Paris i
7、s back on the softball team.Taylor will apply to college soon and she wants to be a nurse.“I feel more confident in my actions now,” Taylor says.“I know I can act under pressure (压力)in an emergency.”,理解诱思 1.What was wrong with Paris on that cold March day? 答案 Paris suffered a sudden heart failure. 2.How did Taylor help Paris? 答案 Taylor helped Paris by doing a life-saving action immediately. 3.What can we infer about Taylor from the experts words? 答案 Taylor did a great job. 4.What kind of person can we describe Taylor? 答案 She is calm and brave.,
