Unit 8 课时检测(9) Reading Club(自修课)（word练习）-【新课程学案】新教材2023-2024学年高中英语必修第三册（北师大版2019）

UNIT 8 课时检测(九) Reading Club（自修课） Ⅰ.阅读理解 A As a young girl growing up in France, Sarah Toumi dreamed of becoming a leader who could make the world a better place.Her passion to help others was awakened when, from the age of nine, she accompanied her Tunisian father to his birthplace in the east of the country during holidays.There she organized homework clubs and activities for children.Toumi witnessed first-hand the destructive effect of desertification.“Within 10 years rich farmers became worse off, and in 10 years from now they will be poor.I wanted to stop the Sahara Desert in its tracks.” A decrease in average rainfall and an increase in the severity of droughts (干旱) have led to an estimated 75 percent of Tunisia's agricultural lands being threatened by desertification. Toumi recognized that farming practices needed to change.She is confident that small land areas can bring large returns if farmers are able to adapt by planting sustainable crops, using new technologies for water treatment and focusing on natural products and fertilizers (肥料) rather than chemicals. In 2012, Toumi consolidated her dream to fight the desert.She moved to Tunisia, and set up a programme named Acacias for All to put her sustainable farming philosophy into action.“I want to show young people in rural areas that they can create opportunities where they are.Nobody is better able to understand the impact of desertification and climate change than somebody who is living with no access to water.” By September 2016, more than 130,000 acacia trees had been planted on 20 pilot farms, with farmers recording a 60 percent survival rate.Toumi estimated that some 3 million acacia trees were needed to protect Tunisia's farmland.She expects to plant 1 million trees by next year.In the next couple of years, Toumi hopes to extend the programme to Algeria and Morocco. 语篇解读：本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了主人公图米去突尼斯旅游的经历激发了她要帮助当地人的热情，因此创立了“Acacias for All”项目，来改善当地农田，实践其可持续农业的理念。 1．How did Toumi's holiday trips to Tunis