Scalers英语晨读7期 预习

1.原材料引用（Material）：

This is the VOA Special English Health Report.

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. CPR keeps blood and oxygen flowing to the heart and brain.

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. No mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths were given to them. 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. Only ten percent of the victims treated with traditional CPR survived with good brain ability.

The American Heart Association changed its guidelines for CPR chest presses in two thousand five. It said people should increase the number of chest presses from fifteen to thirty for every two breaths given.

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. Studies show that many people do not want to perform mouth-to-mouth breathing on a stranger for fear of getting a disease.

Cardiac arrest kills more than three hundred thousand 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.

And that's the VOA Special English Health Report, written by Caty Weaver. I’m Bob Doughty.

2.信息和事实（Facts）：

这是晨读团这个月需要完成的英语材料原文，接下来会听Scalers每日讲解半小时，重点突破1-2句，课后自行练习1小时，不断地重复，直至无限接近原声。

生词

Cardiopulmonary      美 [ˌkɑ:dɪoʊ'pʌlmənərɪ]

resuscitation     美 [rɪˌsʌsɪ'teɪʃn]

cardiac     美 [ˈkɑ:rdiæk]

victim      美 [ˈvɪktɪm]

 Lancet        美 [ˈlænsɪt]

witness       美 [ˈwɪtnɪs]

3.感受与评价（Comments）：

老实说，刚开始看到这份材料的时候，粗粗扫了一眼，一看是跟医学类相关的，第一感觉是“没兴趣”......

我入群比较晚，看到各位同学已经上传录音了，心里有点着急，好不容易等到下班后，开始研究录音材料。

先是听了几遍录音原文，有些能听懂，有些听不懂，好在感觉语速不算快，而且发音很好听。

接下来读材料。一开始就被生词，长词“Cardiopulmonary resuscitation”难住了，查音标，练了好一会儿，总算是能正常地读了。心想，不会后面一大堆生词吧？要是很多词都这么难念，那我啥时候能读顺啊。想到读顺后才能开始录音，而且录音还得掐时间，心里有点着急，想快点练完。

咬咬牙搞定那个长词后，发现后面生词并不多，心里长舒一口气。心想，开头的拦路虎是不是故意的......如果不是要交作业，换做以前，我断然是没有兴趣去搞懂这种太过于专业的词的。

把材料读了几遍，发现还有磕磕巴巴的地方，反复练习，最后总算是能读得比较顺了。

开始录音。第一次录音5分14秒。第二次4分34秒。第三次4分19秒......

我读的有这么慢吗？不录音还真是不知道自己的速度啊。

最后一次完美地掐在了4分钟。上传作业，收工！

4.统计累计的练习小时数（Hours）：

（这里单指整句练习时间。单个发音是随时随地练的，不方便计时。）

2h/2h

5.其它（Pretext）：

虽然交了作业，但是自己知道还是给自己“放水”了：

1.有些词不确定准确的读音，但是为了追求速度，还是没有一个一个去查音标；

2.虽然最后一次时间控制在4分钟，但是明显后面加快了速度，语速不平稳。

明天继续努力！