Task 2 - Read the article and answer the questions - SHS Friends Global 11 page 78

1. Nội dung câu hỏi

1 What was her great interest as a young girl?

2 What is Silent Spring about?

Rachel Carson, an ecologist, a biologist, and a writer, was born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania. As a small girl, she was an avid reader and soon showed a keen interest in the natural world and writing. 1_________ She graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now

Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.

Initially, Rachel Carson worked for the US Bureau of Fisheries as a part-time science writer. 2_________ She then spent the next few years serving as a marine scientist and editor for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. There, she became famous for her writings on environmental pollution

and the natural history of the sea, 3_________ Climate change, rising sea-levels, melting Arctic glaciers, decreasing animal populations are part of her work. In her most influential book, Silent Spring (1962), Rachel Carson strongly disapproved of the widespread use of pesticides such

as DDT. 4_________ and called for new policies to protect humans and the environment. She then was criticised by the chemical industry and some government officials, but never gave up. 5_________ Additionally, it helped spark the environmental movement, resulting in the

establishment of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. That's why she was called the mother of modern ecology. 

Rachel Carson died of breast cancer in 1964. However, her work continues to inspire new generations to protect all the living world.

2. Phương pháp giải

Đọc bài viết và trả lời các câu hỏi.

1 Mối quan tâm lớn của cô ấy khi còn là một cô gái trẻ là gì?

2 Silent Spring nói về cái gì?

3. Lời giải chi tiết

1 What was her great interest as a young girl?

(Mối quan tâm lớn của cô ấy khi còn là một cô gái trẻ là gì?)

the natural world and writing.

Thông tin: “As a small girl, she was an avid reader and soon showed a keen interest in the natural world and writing.”

(Khi còn là một cô gái nhỏ, cô ấy là một người ham đọc sách và sớm thể hiện sự quan tâm sâu sắc đến thế giới tự nhiên và viết lách.)

2 What is Silent Spring about?

(Silent Spring nói về cái gì?)

Disapproved of the widespread use of pesticides and called for new policies to protect humans and the environment.

(không tán thành việc sử dụng rộng rãi thuốc trừ sâu và kêu gọi các chính sách mới để bảo vệ con người và môi trường.)