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高考提能练(十三) 必修3 Unit 7 The Sea
Ⅰ.阅读理解
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(2019·济南市高三学习质量针对性检测)
Children in rural areas of Cambodia often suffer from or even die of preventable illnesses because there is not any soap available.
In 2014,Samir Lakhani,an American college student,saw the issue while volunteering in a Cambodian village.“I remember quite vividly a mother bathing her newborn baby with laundry powder,which is so harmful to the skin,” said Lakhani.“It’s difficult for rural Cambodians to access soap.First is affordability.If you earn only $1.50 every day,you won’t spend $1 on a bar of soap.Then comes access.The demand is so low that local shops don’t stock soap.The last reason,because many Cambodians don’t really understand where diseases come from,they don’t know how to prevent them,including using soap.”
After figuring out a solution to the problem:the barely used soap in hotels,Lakhani started asking hotels to donate leftover soap.“They were all eager to help,” he explained.
Lakhani registered EcoSoap Bank sh