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第4课时 Assessing Your Progress & Video Time
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Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Manitoba,Canada.One day,when she was five years old,she was walking with her mother in downtown Winnipeg.They saw a man __1__ out of a garbage can.She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry.Hannah was very __2__.She couldn't understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food.Hannah started to think about how she could __3__,but,of course,there was not a lot one fiveyearold could do to solve the problem of homelessness.
Later,when Hannah attended school,she saw another homeless person.It was a woman,__4__ an old shopping trolley(购物车)which was piled with __5__.It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them.This made Hannah very sad,and even more __6__to do something.She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people __7__ they first saw the homeless man.Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad,she wouldn't __8__ as bad.
Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in Manitoba and then in other provinces.She hoped to __9__ her message of hope and awareness.She started the Ladybug Foundation,an organisation aiming at getting rid of homelessness.She began to __10__ “Big Bosses” lunches,where she would try to persuade local business leaders to __11__ to the cause.She also organised a fundraising(募捐)drive in “Ladybug Jars” to collect everyone's spare change during “Make Change” month.More recently,the foundation began another __12__ called National Red Scarf Day—a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada's __13__ and homeless.
There is an emergency shelter in Winnipeg called “Hannah's Place”, something that Hannah is very __14__ of.Hannah's Place is divided into several areas,providing shelter for people when it is so cold that __15__ outdoors can mean death.In the more than five years since Hannah bega