During the past several years, the
number of deaths caused by fires in the home has decreased. This is partly due
to the increased use of smoke detectors. Smoke detectors are electronic devices
that sound an alarm if any smoke reaches them. However, fires still kill many
people in the home. Over 75% of all fire deaths occur in the home.
During
the past ten years, the use of smoke detectors has increased greatly. Today,
most home fires happen in homes that do not have a smoke detector. Less than
25% of all home fires happen in the homes with a smoke detector.
Smoke detectors reduce fire
deaths by speeding up the discovery of a fire. Recent studies show that smoke
detectors cut the risk of fire deaths by 25%.
Children and older people are
often not able to react correctly in a fire emergency. They either do nothing
or do the wrong thing. It is not surprising, then, that persons aged 75and over have the highest rate of
home fire deaths. Persons aged 5 and under have the next highest rate.
Those 75 and over have the highest rate of fire deaths of
any group from heating, cooking, and electrical fires, and from fires caused by
smoking. About 34% of the victims in this age group helped start the fire that
killed them, compared to 19% for all age groups. Over 18% of all fire victims
are bedridden, meaning, they
are too sick or too weak to leave their beds. Burning clothes play a part in
15% of fire deaths.
Many of the fires that kill children are those which the
children start themselves by playing with matches or lighters. 30% of fire
victims aged 5 or younger are killed in this type of fire. Even for
children just 2 years or younger, 14% are closely involved in starting the fire
that kills them.
1 . The increased use of smoke
detectors. contributed a lot to the________
a) increase of home fires
b) decrease of the number of deaths caused by home fires.
c) death of a lot old people
d) high rate of children deaths
2. The highest rate of home fire
deaths is found among ________.
a) a) the persons aged 5 and under b.
firefighters
c.
the persons aged
75 and over d) children
3.
.The underlined word "bedridden"
in paragraph # 5 means__________.
a) high rate b)
age groups
c) victims of home fires d) too sick or too weak to leave their beds
4.
."30% of fire victims aged 5 or younger are killed in this type of fire."
In the last paragraph, that type of
fire that the writer is referring to is the fire that ___________.
a) old people start by themselves.
b) women start while cooking.
c) children start by playing with matches or lighters.
d) bedridden people start by themselves.
5 .The passage is mainly talking about____________ .
a) the advantages of smoke detectors and
victims of home fires
b) Why old people have the highest rate of fire deaths
c) why the children have the next highest rate of fire deaths
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