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A
(2022山东济南高三二模)
Collette Divitto,31,was born with Down’s Syndrome(唐氏综合征),but she is far from
woman channeled her passion for baking into a cookie business with a global mission to change the
world,one cookie at a time.
Based in Boston,Massachusetts,her company was founded in gh she didn’t plan on
being a business owner,she really created jobs for disabled people with all types of said that
she opened the bakery after receiving numerous job interview rejections,often being told she was not “a
good fit” for the company.“It was sad and it was hard,” she said.“To me,it felt like they didn’t like me at
all because of who I one would hire me,so I decided to open my own business.”
The path to success wasn’t o’s mother Rosemary Alfredo didn’t raise her daughter to
think of herself as different from her this changed when Divitto was in the fourth grade and
she was bullied by a boy in her class who started calling her “Down Syndrome”.Her mother had to have a
conversation with her about what it meant and from then on,Divitto worked hard to be fully accepted at
school.
Divitto is not resting on her honors.A big part of her company’s mission is to help people with
disabilities find is also the author of two children’s books and she was featured on the
documentary Born for Business,about pioneers with o also runs a nonprofit
organization,Collettey’s Leadership Org.
Her first priority is to let people start seeing abilities in the physically disadvantaged and to employ 82
percent of the people with disabilities who are capable of working but cannot find her drive and
vision,Divitto is sure to be a success.
drove Divitto to start her own business?
desire to help others.
failure to find a job.
prospect of bakery.
passion for baking.
can we learn about Divitto from paragraph 4?
attempts to be a pioneer.
aims to assist the disabled.
wants to enlarge her business.
plans to direct a documentary.
concerns Divitto most about the disabled?
human rights.
working conditions.
s of self-development.
ition of their abilities.
of the following can best describe Divitto?
ndent and strict.
ous and humorous.
ined and responsible.
ng and knowledgeable.
B
Despite Kyle Tianshi being only a 15-year-old US high schooler,he has published five sci-fi
fifth book Eventide was released in r,this may not be his most impressive
achievement as Kyle just received the “Hero Award”,a $20,000 grand is the top honor in the
California Youth Sustainability competition aims to encourage and support young community
leaders who are making a difference for sustainability in their communities by taking action for the planet.
Kyle,a sophomore from the Cambridge School in the US,received the honor for his portable invention
called device can detect microscopic particles(粒子) in water by using a laser and
particles can be harmful to people and the environment.
Kyle came up with the idea for the invention based on his experience growing up in San
Diego,California, had no access to unpolluted drinking water and his parents asked him not to
drink tap spent about $60 buying the tools needed to analyze the tap water:a laser,a microscope
and a micro-computer.“It’s incredibly powerful for the price,” Kyle he used their family’s
garage as his laboratory,doing research on the pollution of drinking water caused by micro-plastics.
Kyle hopes to bring to the market a low-cost alternative tool for detecting micro-plastic pollution
levels in drinking this way,he can offer help to people who don’t have access to water
filtration(过滤) has applied for a patent.
Kyle said his sister Emily,a freshman at Stanford University,inspired his interest in environmental
was recognized nationally for developing a water collection have founded the
Clearwater Innovation program to advocate for clean water through social media platforms and organize
community cleanup events.
do we know about Kyle?
is good at adapting sci-fi works.
entered many novel contests.
received an award for his invention.
’s found microscopic particles in water.
led to Kyle’s creation of NEREID?
’s lack of clean drinking water.
’s poor living conditions.
desire to be a community leader.
family’s encouragement.
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