A life-saving traffic stop

难词探意

1. burp /bзːp/ v. （轻拍婴儿背）使打嗝

2. ominous /'ɒmɪnəs/ adj. 恶兆的；不吉利的

3. whimper /'wɪmpə(r)/ n. 抽泣；呜咽声

Kemira Boyd had just jumped in the shower when she heard her stepmother Tammy Boyd banging (猛击) on the door. Kemira's 12-day-old daughter was choking. Having fed andburpedbaby Ryleigh just 30 minutes earlier, the 24-year-old new mother burst out of the bathroom and began patting her daughter on the back. Ryleigh was usually quick to cry. Now she didn't make a sound. She knew Ryleigh needed to get to the hospital fast.

They had barely made it out of their neighborhood， Summerville, South Carolina, when the flashing lights of a police car appeared behind them.Deputy Will Kimbro figured that the speeding driver was either too distracted to notice him or unconcerned. Kimbro soon found out it was a frightening combination of the two. Desperate for help, Kemira handed the baby to Kimbro. He put a hand on her little chest. Ryleigh's heart was barely beating.

Kimbro radioed (无线电广播) for an ambulance—it was seven minutes out, and the hospital was even farther away. That was seven minutes Ryleigh didn't have, her lips already anominousshade of blue.

The fact that Kimbro was there was something of a miracle.He is a school resource officer who usually spends his days patrolling the halls of the middle school ten miles away. But he travels farther when school is out in summer. More luckily， he had recently completed a CPR class and knew exactly how to treat an infant. Although he was shocked, his training kicked in, and he went to work to keep that baby alive.Kimbro knew the choking infant didn't have a chance if there was a blockage, and he used one finger to clear her airway. That was the magic touch; 20 seconds later, Ryleigh began to fuss. Then came awhimper.

“If she's crying like that, she's breathing,” said Kimbro with a relief easily felt in his trembling voice. “As long as she's crying, she's breathing.”

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阅读上面的文章，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。 注意词数150左右。

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But they still had five more minutes until the emergency medical technician would arrive.

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Kimbro transferred Ryleigh to an emergency medical technician.

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They had barely made it out of their neighborhood，Summerville, South Carolina, when the flashing lights of a police car appeared behind them.

【信息提取】“主语+had barely/scarcely/rarely+过去分词+when+主语+一般过去时”构成的是一个固定句式，意为“一……就……”，当barely/scarcely/rarely放到句首时，主句要用部分倒装语序。

【句式仿写】学校的铃声刚响，我就冲出了教室。