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When other nine-year-old kids were playing games, she was working at a petrol station£®When other teens were studying or going out, she struggled to find a place to sleep on the street£®But she overcame these terrible setbacks to win a highly competitive scholarship and gain entry to Harvard University£®And her amazing story has inspired a movie, ¡°Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story¡±, shown in late April.
Liz Murray, a 22-year-old American girl, has been writing a real-life story of willpower and determination£®Liz grew up in the shadow of two drug-addicted parents£®There was never enough food or warm clothes in the house£®Liz was the only member of the family who had a job£®Her mother had AIDS and died when Liz was just 15 years old£®The effect of that loss became a turning point in her life£®Connecting the environment in which she had grown up with how her mother had died, she decided to do something about it.
Liz went back to school£®She threw herself into her studies, never telling her teachers that she was homeless£®At night, she lived on the streets£®¡°What drove me to live on had something to do with understanding, by understanding that there was a whole other way of being£®I had only experienced a small part of the society,¡± she wrote in her book Breaking Night.
She admitted that she used envy to drive herself on£®She used the benefits that come easily to others, such as a safe living environment, to encourage herself that ¡°next to nothing could hold me down¡±£®She finished high school in just two years and won a full scholarship to study at Harvard University£®But Liz decided to leave her top university for a couple of months earlier this year in order to take care of her father, who has also developed AIDS£®¡°I love my parents so much£®They are drug addicts£®But I never forget that they love me all the time.¡±
Liz wants moviegoers £¨Ó°ÃÔ£© to come away with the idea that changing your life is ¡°as simple as making a decision¡±£®
1£®In which order did the following things happen to Liz?
a£®Her Mum died of AIDS£®
b£®She worked at a petrol station£®
c£®She got admitted into Harvard£®
d£®The movie about her life was put on£®
e£®She had trouble finding a place to sleep£®
A£®b, a, e, c, d B£®a, b, c, e, d C£®e, d, b, a, c D£®b, e, a, d, c
2£®What decision did Liz make that changed her life?
A£®To write Breaking Night.
B£®To go to the best university.
C£®To live through the difficult time.
D£®To live a different life from her parents¡¯£®
3£®When she wrote, ¡°What drove me to live on ¡ I had only experienced a small part of the
society¡±, she meant that ________.
A£®she had little experience of social life
B£®she could hardly understand the society
C£®she would do something for her own life
D£®she needed to travel more around the world
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