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Answer the following questions according to the text.A popular method of treating frozen fingers and toes in very cold, even freezing weather is to slowly rewarm them or rub them with snow. The best treatment, however, is not slow rewarming but rapid rewarming. Putting the frozen fingers or toes in a warm bath or using a hot water bottle are both good ways to treat them. Hot drinks to warm the body from within are also helpful. One must be careful about burning the skin, however. The temperature of any heat applied should not be greater than 43 C. 1. The main concern of the passage is _____. A) why frozen fingers and toes should be slowly rewarmed. B) how to keep adequately warm in the winter. C) how to treat fingers and toes that have been frozen. D) the dangers of freezing weather for the body. E) why one should have plenty of hot drinks in winter. 2. It is pointed out in the passage that _____. A) the use of hot water bottles to rewarm the body is not advisable. B) one should try to rewarm frozen fingers and toes fairly rapidly. C) in rewarming the body the higher the temperature the better the result is. D) people should be warned not to go out in freezingly cold weather. E) one should take a bath as often as possible in winter. 3. The author warns that _____. A) the minimum temperature required is 43 C. B) in rewarming the body, care must be taken not to burn the skin. C) one should never rub frozen fingers and toes with snow. D) hot drinks must not be taken in immediately. E) recovery cannot be as rapid as one would expect. |
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Answer» 1 C) how to treat fingers and toes that have been frozen 2 B) one should try to rewarm frozen fingers and toes fairly rapidly 3 B) in rewarming the body, care must be taken not to burn the skin |
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