填空题How to Argue with Your Boss
1. Before you argue with your boss, check with the boss"s secretary to determine his mood. If he ate nails for breakfast, it is not a good idea to ask him for something. Even without the boss"s secretary, there are keys to timing, don"t approach the boss when he"s on deadline; don"t go in right before lunch, when he is apt to be distracted and rushed; don"t go in just before or after he has taken a vacation.
2. If you"re mad, that will only make your boss mad. Calm down first. And don"t let a particular concern open the floodgates for all your accumulated frustration. The boss will feel that you think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to change your mind. Then, maybe he will dismiss you.
3. Terrible disputes can result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the other wants to discuss. Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are made clear. The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make the boss understand it.
4. Your boss has enough on his mind without your adding more. If you can"t put forward an immediate solution, at least suggest how to approach the problem. People who frequently present problems without solutions to their bosses may soon find they can"t get past the secretary.
5. To deal effectively with a boss, it"s important to consider his goals and pressures. If you can put yourself in the position of being a partner to the boss, then he will be naturally more inclined to work with you to achieve your goals.
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1.Tranquilizers calm a person by acting on the nervous system. They belong
to a group of drugs called anti-anxiety and hypnotic drugs. Such drugs formerly
were referred to as depressants.2. There are two types of
tranquilizers-anti-psychotic drugs and anti-anxiety drugs. Anti-psychotic drugs
are used to treat patients with severe mental illness psychose. Antianxiety
drugs are used to treat various emotional problems, particularly anxiety.3.
Physicians prescribe anti-psychotic drugs to treat a mental illness that is
characterized by illogical, unpredictable thinking. The drugs reduce the
confusion and excitement experienced by the patient. Anti-anxiety drugs relax
the muscles and reduce tension. They are prescribed mainly for the treatment of
anxiety. Physicians also use anti-anxiety drugs to calm children who must
undergo surgery.4 .Tranquilizers calm a person without causing much
drowsiness if taken in a small enough dose. Larger doses may make the user
sleepy as well as calmer. However, even the use of mild tranquilizers over a
long period of time may make the user dependent on these drugs. Besides, some
tranquilizers have undesirable side effects. They may cause muscle weakness and
general fatigue. In addition, tranquilizers may cause drowsiness, especially if
a person drinks alcoholic beverages before or after taking the drugs. A per- son
should not drive a motor vehicle for several hours after taking a
tranquilizer.5. Therefore, physicians usually prescribe a small doze of
tranquilizers at a time. Patients who suffer from insomnia have to visit
physicians from time to time for the medicine. Drugstores do not sell
tranquilizers to people without the physician's prescription. You must have
heard of stories about individuals taking an excessive dose of tranquilizers to
commit suicide. Tranquilizers must be taken in accordance with the physician' s
instructions.
填空题A. Actions Taken to HelpB. Treatment of VomitingC. The Difference between Life and DeathD. Medical Importance of First AidE. Preparations at HomeF. Causes and Signs of Poisoning
填空题Breaking the News about Your Diagnosis1 When I was diagnosed with breast cancer nearly a year ago, I found myself at a loss for words at first. Over time, however, I developed some pointers (点子), which I hope will help others. 2 During the first few weeks of emotional "aftershocks" (余悸) from the diagnosis, I found myself unable to utter the word "cancer". Still, I wanted to share the news with my relatives and friends who already knew that I'd had a biopsy (活检) and were anxiously awaiting my telephone call. I did the best I could, which is all anyone can do in this situation. When I called them, I said, "What we feared has happened." They immediately knew what I meant.3 Nearly a year after my diagnosis, I find myself more comfortable telling people "1 was diagnosed with cancer" instead of saying "1 have cancer." On some deep level, I don't want to "own" this illness. Choose language that suits you when you share your news. And keep in mind that there is no one "right" way of doing this.4 Most people, after hearing your announcement, will be curious about the next step. They may wonder if you will be undergoing radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy (化疗). They may wonder where and when you will have surgery. Answer their questions as best you can, but keep in mind that "1 don't know right now" or 'Tm still in too much shock to think about that" are good answers.5 Wait until the initial wave of strong emotions has passed before telling the children in your life. Don't overwhelm (使不知所措) very young children with too much information. Assure them that, even if you will be in the hospital for a while, they will see you every day and they will be cared for, Older children may already fear the word "cancer", so be prepared to reassure them. Emphasize the positive steps that doctors will be taking to treat your illness.
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Acupuncture—Old Chinese
Medicine For more than 4,000 years people in
Asia have used acupuncture to treat illnesses. {{U}} {{U}} 1
{{/U}} {{/U}}Today acupuncture is also very popular in Europe, America and
Australia. Acupuncture can control pain and sickness. It cab
also be used if you have a headache or back pain. Some doctors use acupuncture
along with regular treatments for asthma, high blood pressure or
stress.{{U}} {{U}} 2 {{/U}} {{/U}}Some people think that
acupuncture can treat depression and even help people to stop smoking. Many
patients feel more energy after a treatment, while others may feel more
relaxed. People who practice acupuncture must take courses to
learn how to do it correctly. {{U}} {{U}} 3 {{/U}}
{{/U}} During treatment the patient lies down and needles are
stuck into certain points of the body. There are hundreds of possible points and
each one has a certain effect on the body. {{U}} {{U}} 4
{{/U}} {{/U}}For example, you stick a needle into the hand to treat problems
with your stomach. Acupuncture needles are made of metal and
about as thick as a human hair. They normally go less than one centimeter into
the skin. When they are in the skin the acupuncturist may twist them or send
electricity through them. The patients rest for a short time and then the
needles are removed. Acupuncture normally doesn't hurt. There
is also a milder form of acupuncture called acupressure where you don't need
needles. Doctors use their fingers to press the points of the body.
Chinese medicine teaches us that all acupuncture points are located along
pathways called meridians. Each of these meridians carries energy, which the
Chinese call "qi" to certain points of the body. If this "qi" gets blocked from
an area the person will get sick or feel pain. Sticking needles into the correct
points can help "qi" flow again and make the person well.
Doctors today are not sure how acupuncture really works. They have not found any
proof that these pathways of energy really exist. Some think that needles cause
the body to produce pain killing substances. {{U}} {{U}} 5
{{/U}} {{/U}}Some also say that acupuncture only works because patients
believe in it. A. Doctors have even used acupuncture to stop
pain during an operation. B. Others think that the needles
block pain signals that travel along the nerves to the brain.
C. It is an old Chinese form of healing in which your skin is pierced with thin
needles to relieve pain. D. In many places, especially outside
of Asia, only doctors are allowed to perform acupuncture. E.
The earliest written record of acupuncture is found in the Huangdi
Neijing. F. The points can also be very far away from the
place of pain.
填空题A. because of their similarityB. that we would not be able to understand it at all.C. to the popularization of English as a world language D the trend to become a global languageE. what once happened to LatinF. but the speed with which
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{{B}}The Drink Your Body Needs
Most{{/B}}1 Our bodies are estimated to be about 60 to 70% water. Blood
is mostly water, and our muscles, lungs, and brain all contain a lot of water.
Water is needed to regulate body temperature and to provide the means for
nutrients (滋养物)to travel to all our organs. Water also transports oxygen to our
cells, removes waste, and protects our joints and organs.2 We lose
water through urination (排尿), respiration (呼吸), and by sweating. If you are very
active, you lose more water than if you do not take much exercise. Symptoms of
mild dehydration (脱水) include chronic pains in joints and muscles, lower back
pain, headaches, and constipation (便秘). A strong smell to your urine, along with
a yellow color indicates that you are not getting enough water. Thirst is an
obvious sign of dehydration and in fact, you need water long before you feel
thirsty.3 A good rule of thumb (好的做法) is to take your body weight in
pounds and divide that number in half. That gives you the number of ounces (盎司)
of water per day that you need. For example, if you weigh 160 pounds, you should
drink at least 80 ounces of water per day. If you exercise you should drink
another 8-ounce glass of water for every 20 minutes you are active. If you drink
coffee or alcohol, you should add at least an equal amount of water. When you
are traveling on an airplane, it is good to have 8 ounces of water for every
hour you are on board the plane.4 'It may be difficult to drink enough
water on a busy day. Be sure you have water handy at all times by keeping a
bottle for water with you when you are working, traveling, or exercising. If you
get bored with plain water, add a bit of lemon for a touch of flavor. There are
some brands of flavored water available, but some of them have sugar or
artificial sweeteners that you don't need.
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Weight Worries May Start Early for Slim
Women There is a range of reasons why thin women
think they're too heavy, but the distorted body image may often have its roots
in childhood, the results of a new study suggest. Researchers
found that among more than 2400 thin women they surveyed, nearly 10 percent
thought they were too heavy. {{U}}(46) {{/U}} According
to the study authors,led by Dr. Susanne Kruger Kjaer of the Danish Cancer
Society Copenhagen," society's ideal" female body is moving toward an
underweight physique (体格). {{U}}(47) {{/U}} To
investigate body image among thin women, the researchers gave questionnaires
(调查表)to 2,443 women ages 27 to 38 whose body mass index was at the low end of
normal. {{U}}(48) {{/U}} Overall, almost 10 percent of
the women thought they were too heavy. Those who reported certain "severe life
events" in childhood or adolescence, such as having a parent become ill or
having their educational hopes dashed (使破灭) , were more likely than others to
have a distorted body image. {{U}}(49) {{/U}} In
contrast, traumatic (使人不快的)events in adulthood, such as serious illness or
significant marital problems, were not related to poor body image, the
researchers report. {{U}}(50) {{/U}} A. The same was
true for women who started having sex or drinking alcohol when they were younger
than 15 years old. B. Experiences in childhood, including
having an ill parent, or starting to drink or have sex at a particularly young
age, were among the risk factors for having a distorted body image.
C. "Our results indicate that the risk of being dissatisfied with (one's)
own body weight may be established early in life. "Kjaer and her colleagues
write. D. Research suggests that many normal-weight women wish
to weigh less. E. If worries have altered your appetite or
weight,it will help to talk to someone about it. F. The women
were asked about factors ranging from childhood experiences to current exercise
habits.
填空题Seek Health and Wellness
1 Whether you are busy studying or starting clerkship, it is absolutely essential to maintain health and well-being throughout your medical career. Some ways are useful in trying to stay healthy and active. Hopefully you can take them!
2 Staring at a laptop screen for a prolonged (长时间) period of time not only dries out our eyes but also begins to take a toll on our efficiency. If you find yourself staring at the same slide for more than 15 minutes, take a nice walk outside!
3 Different types of nuts are great brain food! Nuts of any kind can easily be absorbed into your daily meals. They go great with milk and salads. To add in the nutritious value of nuts, they serve as a source of protein (蛋白质) while helping to raise HDL, the "good cholesterol" (胆固醇) in our bodies.
4 If you"re a coffee lover, try switching it up from time to time. Carbonated water is a good substitute every now and then. There are no calories, compared to regular sodas (碳酸饮料), and the carbonation adds a little fizz (嘶嘶声) that can help keep you awake and refreshed.
5 It"s easy to feel nervous about medical practice, but if you keep your mind focused on the big picture and acknowledge what you"ve done instead of what you haven"t, your mindset will take a turn for the greater good. Being confident and staying positive changes your mood and outlook making the workload more manageable.
6 We may have something called "puppy therapy". It"s important to have something that is "your thing", something that you enjoy doing that helps you connect with the outside world. That can be anything that can relax your mind and re-energize your body without taking a huge mass out of your busy day.
填空题Organ Donation and Transplantation
1. Organ donation (捐献) and transplantation (移植) refers to the process by which organs or tissues from one person are put into another person"s body.
2. The number of people needing a transplant continues to rise faster than the number of donors. About 3,700 transplant candidates are added to the national waiting list each month. Each day, about 77 people receive organ transplants. However, about 18 people die each day waiting for transplants that can"t take place because of the shortage of donated organs.
3. There are no age limits on who can be an organ donor. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors. If you are younger than 18, you must have a parent"s or guardian"s consent (同意). If you are 18 yearsold or older, you can show you want to be an organ and tissue donor by signing a donor card.
4. Many people think that if they agree to donate their organs, the doctor or the emergency room staff won"t work as hard to save their life. This is not true. The transplant team is completely separate from the medical staff working to save your life. The transplant team does not become involved with you until doctors have determined that all possible efforts to save your life have failed.
5. If you need an organ transplant, your doctor will help you get on the national waiting list. Your name will become part of a pool of names. When an organ donor becomes available, all the patients in the pool are compared to the donor. Factors such as blood and tissue type, size of the organ, medical urgency(紧急) of the patient"s illness, time already spent on the waiting list, and distance between donor and recipient(接受者) are considered.
填空题The development of the university relies to a certain extent on ______.
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{{B}}Why Do People Shrink?{{/B}} Did you
ever see the movie Honey, I shrunk the kids? It's about a wacky(古怪的)dad (who's
also a scientist) who accidentally(偶然的) shrink's his kids with his homemade
miniaturizing (使小型化) invention. Oops! The kids spend the rest of the movie as
tiny people who are barely visible while trying to get back to their normal
size. {{U}} (46) {{/U}}It takes place over years and may
add up to only one inch or so off of their adult height (maybe a little more,
maybe less), and this kind of shrinking can*t be magically reversed, although
there are things that can be done to stop it or slow it down. But why does
shrinking happen at all? {{U}} (47) {{/U}}As people get
older, they generally lose some muscle and fat from their bodies as part of the
natural aging process. Gravity (the force that keeps your feet on the ground)
take hold, and the bones in the spine, called vertebrae(椎骨), may break down or
degenerate, and start to collapse into one another. {{U}}(48) {{/U}}.
But perhaps the most common reason why some older people shrink is because of
osteoporosis (骨质疏松症). Osteoporosis occurs when too much
spongy(海绵) bone tissue (which is found inside of most bones) is broken down and
not enough new bone material is made. {{U}}(49) {{/U}}. Bones become
smaller and weaker and can easily break if someone with osteoporosis is injured.
Older people—especially women, who generally have smaller and lighter bones to
begin with—are more likely to develop osteoporosis. As years go by, a person
with osteoporosis shrinks a little bit. Did you know that every
day you do a shrinking act? You aren't as tall at the end of the day as you are
at the beginning. {{U}}(50) {{/U}}. Don't worry, though. Once you get a
good night's rest, your body recovers, and the next morning, you're standing
tall again. A. They end up pressing closer together, which makes
a person lose a little height and become shorter. B. That's
because as the day goes on, water in the disks of the spine gets compressed
(squeezed) due to gravity, making you just a tiny bit shorter.
C. Over time, bone is said to be lost because it's not being
replaced. D. Luckily, there are things that people can do to
prevent shrinking. E. For older people, shrinking isn't that
dramatic or sudden at all. F. There are a few reasons.
填空题Reinventing the Table An earth scientist has rejigged the periodic table to make chemistry simpler to teach to students. (46) But Bruce Railsback from the University of Georgia says he is the first to create a table that breaks with tradition and shows the ions of each element rather than just the elements themselves. "I got tired of breaking my arms trying to explain the periodic table to earth students," he says, criss-crossing his hands in the air and pointing to different bits of a traditional table. (47) But he has added contour lines to charge density, helping to explain which ions react with which. "Geochemists just want an intuitive sense of what's going on with the elements," says Albert Galy from the University of Cambridge (48) (49) He explains that sulphur, for example, shows up in three different spots one-for sulphide, which is found in minerals, one for sulphite, and one for sulphate, which is found in sea slat, for instance. He has also included symbols to show which ions are nutrients, and which are common in soil or water. (50) A. There have been many attempts to redesign the periodic table since Dmitri Mendeleev drew it up in 1871.B. Railsback has still ordered the elements according to the number of protons they have.C. "I imagine this would be good for undergraduates."D. Railsback has listed some elements more than once.E. And the size of element's symbol reflects how much of it is found in the Earth's crust.F. The traditional periodic table was well drawn.
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Many Benefits from Cancer
Organization 1. Do you know a child who survived
leukemia? Do you have a mother, sister or aunt whose breast cancer was found
early thanks to a mammogram? Do you have a friend or coworker who quit smoking
to reduce their risk of lung cancer? Each of these individuals benefited from
the American Cancer Society's research program. 2. Each day
scientists supported by the American Cancer Society work to find breakthroughs
that will take U.S. one step closer to a cure. The American Cancer Society has
long recognized that research holds the ultimate answers to the prevention,
diagnosis and treatment of cancer. 3. As the largest source of
nonprofit cancer research funds in the United States, the American Cancer
Society devotes over $100 million each year to research. Since 1946, they've
invested more than $2.4 billion in research. The investment has paid rich
dividends. In 1946, only one in four cancer patients was alive five years after
diagnosis; today 60 percent live longer than five years. 4.
Investigators and health professionals in universities, research
institutes and hospitals throughout the country receive grants from the American
Cancer Society. Of the more than 1,300 new applications received each year, only
11 percent can be funded. If the American Cancer Society had more money
available for research funding, could nearly 200 more applications considered
outstanding be funded each year? 5. You can help fund more of
these applications by participating in the American Cancer Society Relay for
Life, a team event to fight cancer. More funding means more cancer breakthroughs
and more lives being saved. To learn more, call Donna Hood, chair with the
Neosho Relay for Life of the American Cancer Society at 451-4880.
A. What Could Be Done with More Money B. Establishment
of the American Cancer Society C. Significance of Funded
Research D. Other Sources of Funding for Cancer
Research E. Benefits Achieved Through Investment
F. How You Can Offer Help
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How to Argue with Your Boss
1. Before you argue with your boss, check with the boss's secretary to
determine his mood. If he ate nails for breakfast, it is not a good idea to ask
him for something. Even without the boss's secretary, there are keys to timing:
don't approach the boss when he's on deadline; don't go in right before lunch,
when he is apt to be distracted and rushed; don't go in just before or after he
has taken a vacation. 2. If you're mad, that will only make
your boss mad. Calm down first. And don't let a particular concern open the
floodgates for all your accumulated frustration. The boss will feel that you
think negatively about the company and it is hopeless trying to change your
mind. Then, maybe he will dismiss you. 3. Terrible disputes can
result when neither the employer nor the employee knows what is the problem the
other wants to discuss. Sometimes the fight will go away when the issues are
made clear. The employee has to get his point across clearly in order to make
the boss understand it. 4. Your boss has enough on his mind
without your adding more. If you can't put forward an immediate solution, at
least suggest how to approach the problem. People who frequently present
problems without solutions to their bosses may soon find they can't get past the
secretary. 5. To deal effectively with a boss, it's important
to consider his goals and pressures. If you can put yourself in the position of
being a partner to the boss, then he will be naturally more inclined to work
with you to achieve your goals. A. Keep Your Voice Low All the
Time B. Put Yourself in the Boss's Position C.
Propose Your Solution D. Don't Go In When You Are
Angry E. Make the Issue Clear F. Never Give
In
填空题Sleep is part of a person's daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, (46) . When you first drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature will drop slightly, your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow and become quite regular. Your brain waves slow down a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves predominating for the first few minutes. (47) . For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through stage 2 and stage 3 sleep. The lower your stage of sleep, (48) . Then, about 40 to 60 minutes after you lose consciousness, you will have reached the deepest sleep of all. Your brain waves will show the large slow waves that are known as the delta rhythm. This is stage 4 sleep. You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night long, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, (49) . The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves. Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids as if you were looking at something occurring in front of you. This period of rapid eye movement lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep. (50) . Provided that you do not wake up during the first REM sleep period, your body will soon relax again, your breathing will grow slow and regular once more, and you will slip gently back from stage 1 to stage 4 sleep--only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes later.A. your brain activity level will increase again slightly.B. The slower your brain waves will be.C. Your brain is still working when you are sleeping.D. Your sleep cycle is as follows.E. It is during REM sleep that most dreams seem to occur.F. This is called stage i sleep.
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填空题A Baby"s Growth
1 To describe a baby"s growth, the old saying "one thing leads to another" should really read, "one thing leads to an explosion". The perfection of vision and the ability to hold his head up allow appreciation of visual space. The evolution of increasingly efficient reaching also lets the baby appreciate and participate in his three-dimensional world.
2 You may notice that your baby can grab toys with either hand. This is partly because the baby has learned to grasp an object even if it touches his hand lightly or his eyes are averted. By the end of the fourth month, he can probably alternate hands to grab the toys or transfer a toy from one hand to the other. He may even wave it briskly, then transfer it and repeat the waving, shuttling it back and forth between hands. In imitating the behavior of one hand with the other, the baby may be becoming aware that he can do the same thing with each arm and that each hand is distinct from the other. This awareness is important to his receiving information about space. The baby also begins to see himself act when he repeatedly reaches for and grasps things. He starts to distinguish himself from the outer world.
3 If you would like another sign of this growth process, try one of Gesell"s measures of mental growth, the behavior of a baby before a mirror. According to Gesell, a baby will smile at his image at around twenty weeks of age. Hold your baby up to a mirror and watch him examine the faces there. He will probably attend most to his own image and perhaps smile at it. As his image returns the smile, he may become active and vocalize. He may also look back and forth between your image and you as if the duplication puzzles him. A baby who knows his mother"s face cannot understand two of them. Calling softly to your baby, as he looks at your confusing double, complicates matters even further. His turning back to the real you shows that a baby four months old is likely to have the ability of preference in discrimination.
4 An early attachment to one object—a toy or a stuffed animal—is another index of discrimination, as well as self-development, for the baby"s interests are going beyond himself. Most babies do not prefer one toy this early, but some will. After exploring each toy, your baby may start reaching and playing with one special one. In the months to come, the toy or anything else the baby identifies with himself by wearing or carrying may become a "lovey". A "lovey" will be slept with, chewed, hugged, loved, and "talked to". These "loveies" give the baby a way of coping with the necessary separations from the mother. A friendly and familiar toy bear may just make him easier on himself. Rather than feeling threatened, a mother should be flattered by her baby"s extension of affection elsewhere. A baby with the heart to find a "lovey" is showing early mental resourcefulness and flexibility.
填空题Lung Cancer
1 The death rate due to cancer of the lungs has increased more than 800 percent in males and has more than doubled in females during the last 25 years. It is considerably higher in urban and industrial areas than in rural districts. There are many possible causes, but it is still controversial which are most blameworthy. Those factors which have been mentioned most frequently are the presence of foreign particles and other irritants in the air (smoke particles, smog, exhaust fumes), and the smoking of cigarettes and cigars.
2 Numerous studies have demonstrated a striking correlation between the death rate from lung cancer and smoking habits. Among heavy smokers—21 to 30 cigarettes per day—the mortality rate from lung cancer is nearly 17 times the rate from nonsmokers. It is expected that the death rate among women will increase as the present high rate of smoking among women has its effect.
3 Sometimes cases of lung cancer are discovered at the time when an X-ray is taken for the purpose of detecting tuberculosis. Too often, however, a current emphasis upon the danger of exposure to radiation from X-ray machines can frighten people away from routine chest X-rays and thus prevent an early diagnosis of lung cancer. Early detection is absolutely essential if any possibility of cure is to be maintained. Modem X-ray machines in competent hands pose such slight danger, at least to those over 40 years of age, that this would be much more than offset by the advantages of discovering a tumor while it is small enough to be completely removed.
4 A common form of lung cancer is bronchogenic carcinoma, so-called because the malignancy originates in a bronchus. The tumor may grow until the bronchus is blocked, cutting off the supply of air to that lung. The lung then collapses, and the secretions trapped in the lung spaces become infected, with a resulting pneumonia or the formation of a lung abscess. Such a lung cancer can also spread to cause secondary growths in the lymph nodes of the chest and neck as well as in the brain and other parts of the body. The only treatment that offers a possibility of cure, before secondary growths have time to form, is to remove the lung completely. This operation is called pneumonectomy.
5 Malignant tumors of the stomach, the breast, the prostate gland and other organs may spread to the lungs, causing secondary growths.
填空题Chest Compressions: Most Important of CPR
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, can save the life of someone whose heart has stopped. The condition is called cardiac arrest. The heart stops pumping blood. The person stops breathing. Without lifesaving measures, the brain starts to die within four to six minutes. CPR combines breathing into the victim"s mouth and repeated presses on the chest.
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However, a new Japanese study questions the usefulness of mouth-to-mouth breathing. The study was published in the British medical magazine, The Lancet. Doctors in Tokyo led the research. It examined more than four thousand people who had suffered cardiac arrest. In all the cases, witnesses saw the event happen.
More than one thousand of the victims received some kind of medical assistance from witnesses. Seven hundred and twelve received CPR. Four hundred and thirty-nine received chest presses only.
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The researchers say any kind of CPR improved chances of the patient"s survival. But, they said those people treated with only chest presses suffered less brain damage. Twenty-two percent survived with good brain ability.
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The American Heart Association changed its guidelines for CPR chest presses in 2005.
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Gordon Ewy is a heart doctor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. He wrote a report that appeared with the Study. Doctor Ewy thinks the CPR guidelines should be changed again. He said the heart association should remove rescue breaths from the guidelines. He argues that more witnesses to cardiac arrests would provide treatment if rescue breaths are not a part of CPR. He says this would save lives.
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Cardiac arrest kills more than 300,000 people in the United States every year. The American Heart Association says about ninety-five percent of victims die before they get to a medical center.
A. So far, we have not known exactly yet whether mouth-to-mouth breathing is really useless in CPR.
B. Only ten percent of the victims treated with traditional CPR survived with good brain ability.
C. CPR keeps blood and oxygen flowing to the heart and brain.
D. His studies show that many people do not want to perform mouth-to-mouth breathing on a stranger for fear of getting a disease.
E. It said people should increase the number of chest presses from fifteen to thirty for every two breaths given.
F. No mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths were given to them.