题目内容
She luckily missed the air crash because she on the way and was late for her flight.
A．had a flat tyre B．caught a bad cold
C．sped up D．broke down
A mum saved her daughter’s life with her newly learned first aid skills. Sonya Hall, 33, of Denny Avenue, Lancaster, had only just attended one first aid class the day before when she found herself needing to use the skills on her three year old daughter Tilly.
Sonya, who also has son Emmen, six, attended the first aid course at Lune Park Children’s Centre in Lancaster. Then she was faced with every parent’s worst nightmare when Tilly went blue in the face and stopped breathing. But thanks to her newly acquired skills, Sonya saved Tilly’s life.
Sonya said: “Tilly was playing with her brother and they were fighting over a toy. Emmen won the fight. Tilly fell backwards and her head was hit. She was face down and shaking and at first I thought she was upset. But then I saw she was blue in the face and had stopped breathing. I reacted without thinking and immediately started using the first aid skills I had learned the day before which were so fresh in my mind. I began doing mouth-to-mouth and chest compressions (胸外按压). It probably took about a minute before Tilly started breathing again, but to me it felt like a lifetime.”
After getting Tilly breathing again, Sonya called an ambulance and the doctors came. Since then, Tilly has been diagnosed (诊断) with Reflex Anoxic Seizure (反射缺氧发作). Sonya said: “The seizure can happen when there’s any unexpected pain, fear or fright. It is just so lucky that the day before it happened, I had been practising first aid.”
The Empowering Parents First Aid course is run by Lancashire Adult Learning. Sonya said: “I am just so glad I did the course and learnt the first aid skills. I always feared I would not know what to do in a crisis situation, but luckily I had the knowledge and skills to deal with it.”
1.What happened to Tilly?
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A．She was knocked down by her brother. |
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B．She fell on the floor and hit her head. |
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C．She was hit by a toy on the head and felt upset. |
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D．She was hit by her brother and stopped breathing. |
2.When Sonya found Tilly’s shaking, she thought her daughter must ______.
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A．be crying |
B．be very angry |
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C．pretend to be hurt |
D．recognize her failure |
3.When Sonya goes to the first aid class next time, she will feel ______.
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A．enjoyable |
B．excited |
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C．grateful |
D．confident |
4.What would be the best title for the text?
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A．The importance of first aid |
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B．How to practise first aid |
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C．Mum saves girl with first aid |
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D．Mums should attend first aid courses |
John H. Johnson was born in a black family in Arkansas City in 1918. His father died in an accident when John was six. He was reaching the high school age, but his hometown offered no high school for blacks.
Luckily he had a strong-willed caring mother. John remembered that his mother told him many times, “Son，you can be anything you want really to be if you just believe.” She told him not to depend on others，including his mother. “You have to earn success,” she said. “All the people who work hard don’t succeed, but the only people who do succeed are those who work hard.”
These words came from a woman with less than a third grade education. She also knew that believing and hard work don’t mean everything. So she worked hard as a cook for two years to save enough to take her son, who was then 15，to Chicago.
Chicago in 1933 was not the promised land that black southerners were looking for. John’s mother and stepfather could not find work. But here John could go to school, and here he learned the power of words — as an editor of the newspaper and yearbook at Du Sable High School. His wish was to publish a magazine for blacks.
While others discouraged (使气馁) him, John’s mother offered him more words to live by: “Nothing beats a failure but a try.” She also let him pawn（典当）her furniture to get the ＄500 he needed to start the Negro magazine.
It is natural that difficulties and failures followed John closely until he became very successful. He always keeps his mother’s words in mind: “Son, failure is not in your vocabulary!”
Now John H. Johnson is one of the 400 richest people in America — worth $150 million.
1.John’s father died in ________.
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A．1922 |
B．1933 |
C．1924 |
D．1923 |
2.John’s mother decided to move to Chicago because _______.
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A．his father died when John was very young |
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B．life was too hard for them to stay on in their hometown |
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C．there were no schools for black people in their hometown |
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D．John needed more education badly |
3.John’s mother ________．
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A．didn’t believe in or depend on others |
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B．thought no one could succeed without working hard |
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C．believed one would succeed without working hard |
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D．thought one could be whatever one wanted to be |
4.The story mainly tells us ________ .
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A．about the spiritual support John’s mother gave him |
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B．how John H. Johnson became successful |
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C．about the importance of a good education |
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D．about the key to success for blacks |