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Read the cartoon.

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A cartoon is intended for satire, caricature or humor. In this cartoon, the firefighter told the woman that they rescued cats, not boys.

 

The verb to rescue is closest in meaning to

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Learn how to prevent home fires

 

The best way to ensure fire protection is by preventing fires in the first place. Small steps add up to a safer home for you and your loved ones: switch to LED candles, avoid smoking indoors, keep an eye out for frayed wires, and teach your children about fire protection by informing them about the dangers of matches and lighters.

Keep emergency equipment like fire extinguishers and fire escape ladders in your home on each floor to help fight any fires that do occur. Checking your smoke alarms once a month can help prevent dead batteries and faulty detectors.

Now that you know what to do in case of a fire in your home, the next step is doing everything you can to make fire prevention a top priority. Consider a home security system with integrated fire protection to provide you and your family with safety and peace of mind.

Available at: https://www.safewise.com/home-security-faq/ house-fire/. Accessed on: July 30, 2021. [Fragment]

Preventing fires should be a priority to families.

 

According to the text, which are the recommended emergency equipment to be kept at home?

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Learn how to prevent home fires

 

The best way to ensure fire protection is by preventing fires in the first place. Small steps add up to a safer home for you and your loved ones: switch to LED candles, avoid smoking indoors, keep an eye out for frayed wires, and teach your children about fire protection by informing them about the dangers of matches and lighters.

Keep emergency equipment like fire extinguishers and fire escape ladders in your home on each floor to help fight any fires that do occur. Checking your smoke alarms once a month can help prevent dead batteries and faulty detectors.

Now that you know what to do in case of a fire in your home, the next step is doing everything you can to make fire prevention a top priority. Consider a home security system with integrated fire protection to provide you and your family with safety and peace of mind.

Available at: https://www.safewise.com/home-security-faq/ house-fire/. Accessed on: July 30, 2021. [Fragment]

The objective of the text is

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Cooking Fire Safety

 

Cooking is often a relaxing and fun task that brings family and friends together, but cooking is also the number one cause of home fires and home injuries. Being mindful while you cook, however, can go a long way to helping prevent these fires. Here is everything you need to know about cooking safely!

Cooking and Fire Safety- Tips

• Be on alert! If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol don’t use the stove or stovetop.

• Stay in the kitchen while you are frying, grilling, boiling or broiling food.

• If you are simmering, baking or roasting food, check it regularly, remain in the kitchen while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind you that you are cooking.

• Keep anything that can catch fire — oven mitts, wooden utensils, food packaging, towels or curtains — away from your stovetop.

Available at: https://www.ssvfd.org/safety/cooking-fire-safety/. Accessed on: July 30, 2021. [Fragment]

However, in this context: “Being mindful while you cook, however, can go a long way to helping prevent these fires,” can be replaced with

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Cooking Fire Safety

 

Cooking is often a relaxing and fun task that brings family and friends together, but cooking is also the number one cause of home fires and home injuries. Being mindful while you cook, however, can go a long way to helping prevent these fires. Here is everything you need to know about cooking safely!

Cooking and Fire Safety- Tips

• Be on alert! If you are sleepy or have consumed alcohol don’t use the stove or stovetop.

• Stay in the kitchen while you are frying, grilling, boiling or broiling food.

• If you are simmering, baking or roasting food, check it regularly, remain in the kitchen while food is cooking, and use a timer to remind you that you are cooking.

• Keep anything that can catch fire — oven mitts, wooden utensils, food packaging, towels or curtains — away from your stovetop.

Available at: https://www.ssvfd.org/safety/cooking-fire-safety/. Accessed on: July 30, 2021. [Fragment]

The leading cause of house fires is

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Train Your Brain: Mindfulness Meditation for Anxiety, Depression, ADD and PTSD

Daniel Goleman

 

Meditation also appears to protect your brain from the negative effects of multitasking. Several studies have shown that multitasking impairs your ability to learn. “The brain actually does not do multitasking,” said Goleman. “It doesn’t do several things at once in parallel, rather it works in serial and it switches very rapidly from one thing to the next.” Once you switch away from a task that you’ve been focusing on, it takes time for you to ramp up your concentration again to where it was previously. “Unless,” says Goleman, “you’ve done that ten minutes of mindfulness; focused on your breath, for example, just watched it in and out, noticed when your mind wandered, brought it back.” In this case, your concentration returns much more quickly.

In addition to protecting your brain against the deleterious effects of multitasking and stress, mindfulness also bolsters your working memory. Not only does meditation promote growth in the hippocampus, it also trains your brain to better manage something called proactive interference. Proactive interference occurs when older memories in the brain interfere with the retrieval of newer and more task-relevant memories, an effect that some researchers theorize accounts for nearly all instances of forgetting items in your working memory. One study attributed this improved ability to handle proactive interference to mindfulness meditation’s focus on the present moment — being more present enabled study participants to prioritize recent, task-relevant memories and remember information better.

Available at:https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/meditationlearning/. Accessed on: Feb 28, 2022.

In the sentence: “Unless,” says Goleman, “you’ve done that ten minutes of mindfulness; focused on your breath, for example, just watched it in and out, noticed when your mind wandered, brought it back.”, what does the conjunction unless mean?