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The document discusses the human body's 'fight or flight' response to stress, highlighting remarkable survival stories. It details instances of individuals, like Mary O'Leary and Lorraine Lengkeek, who exhibited extraordinary strength and resilience in life-threatening situations. The narrative concludes with John Thompson's experience, emphasizing the body's ability to protect itself during extreme circumstances.

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Exercise 3-C

The document discusses the human body's 'fight or flight' response to stress, highlighting remarkable survival stories. It details instances of individuals, like Mary O'Leary and Lorraine Lengkeek, who exhibited extraordinary strength and resilience in life-threatening situations. The narrative concludes with John Thompson's experience, emphasizing the body's ability to protect itself during extreme circumstances.

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Exercise 3-C

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1. The human body's "fight or flight" reaction to stress is an ancient defense mechanism
that can allow people to accomplish remarkable feats of strength or endurance.
2. For example, in August 1989, Mary O'Leary's life was saved by the "fight or flight"
system after she was struck by lightning.
3. She had been hiking alone in Colorado's Roosevelt National Forest when a bolt of
lightning, which can carry as much as 100 million volts of electricity, struck her in the
back.
4. Afterwards, although she was barely conscious and had lost the use of both legs, she
pulled herself across the ground to reach a Jeep trail that was almost three kilometres
away.
5. At one point, using only her hands, she had to climb over a fallen tree that was eighteen
metres long and one metre high.
6. Another example of this defense mechanism at work is Lorraine Lengkeek's experience
with a grizzly bear.
7. While camping in Montana, Lorraine and her husband were attacked by a 225 kg grizzly
bear.
8. When the bear started to maul her husband, Lorraine, feeling an intense anger, rushed
at the grizzly.
9. Swinging her binoculars, she struck the bear four times and drove it off, despite being a
sixty-two-year-old, 160 cm tall woman.
10. Finally, a dramatic example of the body's ability to react to dangerous situations
happened to John Thompson, a North Dakota farm boy.
11. While working alone, his arms were severed by a tractor-powered auger.
12. He staggered to his house without arms, used his mouth to turn the doorknob, and
dialed for help with a pencil held in his teeth.
13. Then, to avoid getting blood on his parents' carpet, he sat in the bathtub until help
arrived.
14. Doctors who reattached Thompson's arms say that his body's "fight or flight" system
saved his life by automatically clotting blood in his severed arteries.
15. These examples and others like them are evidence of the human body's extraordinary
ability to protect itself.

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