Question

    I am Turere. I come from Kitengela, a farming community on the edge(边缘) of Nairobi National Park of Kenya(肯尼亚). Since the age of nine, I have helped to look after my family's cows. As a child, in my free time, I enjoyed playing with electronics. I made my own inventions, such as electronic toys from car parts and other things. I also built other electronic devices(仪器) for my neighbors.

At the age of 13, I invented something that changed my life. It also changed the lives of many people in my community. One night, a lion from the park came into my family's farm and killed one of our cows. I was angry. However, killing the lion, I thought, was not the best way to solve the problem. Instead, I decided to invent a solution.

The__first__idea__I__got__was__to__use__fire,__because__I__thought__lions__were__scared__of__fire. But I came to realize that that didn't really help, because it was even helping the lions to see through the cowshed(牛棚). So I didn't give up. I continued.

And a second idea I got was to use a scarecrow(稻草人). I was trying to trick the lions [into thinking] that I was standing near the cowshed. But lions are very clever. They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back. But the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it is always here! So he jumps in and kills the animals.

So one night, I was walking around the cowshed with a torch(手电筒), and that day, the lions didn't come. And I discovered that lions were afraid of a moving light. So I had an idea...

1.完成句子Turere was interested in ________________ when he was a child in his free time.

2.完成句子Turere invented something that ________________ at the age of thirteen.

3.简略回答问题What's the final solution to driving the lion away?

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4.用英语写出文中第4段画线单词所指代的内容。

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5.将文中画线句子译成汉语。

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Answer

1.playing with electronics

2.changed his life

3.Using a moving light.

4.The scarecrow.

5.我的第一个想法是用火，因为我认为狮子害怕火。

【解析】

主旨大意:文章主要讲述了作者为了避免“狮子再次进入牛棚吃牛”， 不断优化自己的思考，锲而不舍地创新和尝试， 最终找到了切实有效的解决方案——利用移动光源使得狮子不再进入牛棚吃牛，达到了人与动物的和平共处。本文旨在引导学生要学会积极思考，优化方法，找到有效的解决方案。