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金版教程　高考总复习首选用卷　英语 基本功扎实练 考点4　细节理解——时间排序 (2024·湖南省长沙市第一中学高三月考)On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Ogg heard the words every parent fears: Their newborn wasn't going to make it. Their twins—a girl and a boy—were born two minutes apart and exactly 14 weeks premature, weighing just over two pounds respectively. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no improvement. His heartbeat was nearly gone, and he'd stopped breathing. The baby had just moments to live. “I saw him gasp (大口喘气), but the doctor said it was no use，” Kate told the Daily Mail five years later. “I know it sounds stupid, but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of life. I wasn't going to give up easily.” Still, the Sydney couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to cherish her last minutes with the tiny boy, Kate asked to hold him. “I wanted to meet him, and for him to know us，” Kate told Today. “We'd resigned ourselves to the fact that we were going to lose him, and we were just trying to make the most of those last, precious moments.” Kate unwrapped the boy, whom the couple had already named Jamie, from his hospital blanket and ordered David to take his shirt off and join them in bed. The first­time parents wanted their son to be as warm as possible and hoped the skin­to­skin contact would improve his condition. They then talked to him. “We were trying to let him stay，” Kate told the Daily Mail. “We explained his name and that he had a twin that he had to look out for and that how hard we had tried to have him.” Then something unbelievable happened. Jamie gasped again and then he started breathing. Finally, he reached for his father's finger. The couple's lost boy had made it. “We're the luckiest people in the world，” David told Today. Eight years later, Jamie and his sister, Emily, are happy and healthy. The Oggs only recently told the kids the story of their birth. “Emily hardly held back her tears，” Kate said, “and she kept hugging Jamie with great affection. This whole ex