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重庆市第八中学2024届高考适应性月考卷 (二)英语读后续写题目:
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Her mouth open in both wonder and horror, Mia stares at the bush cricket that has landed in front of her on the picnic table. The girl is camping with her parents near Fish River Canyon in Namibia, in southwest Africa. During the first few months of a year-long trip through Africa, Asia and the Middle East, Mia is seeing the world with her parents. It is a family's journey to see the world before it's too late though.
米娅惊讶又恐怖地张大嘴巴,凝视着落在她面前野餐桌上的丛林蟋蟀。这个女孩和她的父母在非洲西南部纳米比亚的菲什河峡谷附近露营。在为期一年的非洲、亚洲和中东之旅的头几个月,Mia和她的父母一起看世界。这是一个家庭的旅程,去看看世界,但为时已晚。
Far from their home in Quebec, the families’ experiences, brimming with colour, shape, touch and smell, are especially important to them. Because unless science makes a break-through soon, the little daughter Mia will become blind, likely in adulthood. She has been diagnosed with a disease that has no effective treatment as it gradually robs her of sight.
远离魁北克的家,这些家庭的经历,充满了色彩、形状、触觉和气味,对他们来说尤其重要。因为除非科学很快取得突破,否则小女儿米娅很可能在成年后失明。她被诊断出患有一种没有有效治疗方法的疾病,因为这种疾病逐渐使她失明。
For Mia's parents, mom Edith and dad Sebastien, the diagnose came after a four-year search for the reason their daughter couldn't see at night. Then Mia, banged into furniture that her mom and dad could make out once their eyes adjusted to the dark.
对于Mia的父母,母亲Edith和父亲Sebastien来说,诊断是在四年来寻找女儿晚上看不见的原因后做出的。然后米娅撞上了家具,她的父母一旦眼睛适应黑暗就能辨认出来。
In 2013, when Mia was three, the family began a frustrating series of visits to doctors, none of whom had an answer for her lack of night vision. In 2015, as a last resort, a pediatric ophthalmologist (儿童眼科医生) enrolled the family in a research project in which their entire gene was mapped out. RP, the name of the disease which haunted the poor girl, affected the tissue at the back of the eye that interpreted images in both black and white, and colour. As the disease progresses, the cells in the middle, used for seeing in colour and for everyday activities like reading and writi