2020年高考英语：阅读理解强化复
习题(8)
Tilly Smith, an 11-year-old British girl, who was called “Angel of the Beach”, saved 100 tourists from a Thai beach hit by a tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004
and had been named “Child of the Year 2005” by readers of a French children’s newspaper.
Tilly Smith is a schoolgirl at Danes Hill School in Oxshott, Surrey,
England. Back from Thailand she told her geography class how the sea slowly rose
and started to foam(起泡沫), bubble, and form whirlpools(漩涡) before the big waves came.
“What Tilly Smith described as happening was exactly the same as I’d shown on a video of a tsunami that hit the Hawaiian Islands in 1946,” said Andrew F. Kearney, Tilly’s geography teacher. “She saw the consequences of not acting when
something strange happens.” Kearney said topics for sixth-grade pupils include
earthquakes and volcanoes.
“We covered tsunamis because they can be caused by earthquakes, volcanoes, or landslides,” he added. “I’ve taught this particular course for at least 11
years.”
Kearney uses audiovisual(视听教学的) teaching aids such as interactive
whiteboards to exploit geographic information online (his class often visits nationalgeographic.com). Tilly’s class had looked up U.S. websites about tsunami’s early warning systems.
“The teacher has a computer on the desk and can project different web pages onto the whiteboard,” Kearney said. “It’s helped make great strides in
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