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Passage 1
Ammie Reddick from East Kilbride,Lanarkshire,was only 18 months old when she had the accident that had
scared her for life.The curious child reached up to grab the wire of a hot kettle in the family kitchen and poured
boiling water over her tiny infant frame.
Her mother Ruby tumned round and,seeing Ammie horribly burnt,called an ambulance which rushed her
daughter to a nearby hospital.Twenty percent of Ammie's body had been burned and all of her burns were
third-degree.There.using tissue taken from unburned areas of Ammie's body,doctors performed complex skin
transplants to close her wounds and control her injuries,an operation that took about six hours.Over the next 16
years,Ammie underwent 12 more operations to repair her body
When she started school at Maxwelton Primary at age 4.other pupils made cruel comments or simply wouldn'
t play with her."I was the only bumned child in the street,the class and the school,"she recalled,"some children
refused to become friends because of that."
Today,aged 17.Ammie can only ever remember being a burned person with scars,pain is a permanent part of
her body.She still has to have two further skin transplants.Yet she is a confident,outgoing teenager who offers
inspiration and hope to other young burns victims.
She is a member of the Scottish Bumned Children's Club,a charity set up last year.This month,Ammie will be
joining the younger children at the Graffham Water Center in Cambridge shire for the charity's first summer camp.
"I will show them how to get rid of unkind stares from others,"she says.Ammie loves wearing fashionable
sleeveless tops,and she plans to show the youngsters at the summer camp that they can too."I do not go to great
lengths to hide my burns scars."she says,"I gave up wondering how other people would react years ago."
1.What did other children do when Ammie first went to school?
A.They were friendly to her
B.They showed sympathy to he