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Read the text and answer the questions. Every night, William Kamkwamba's sisters would huddle around the faint light of a kerosene lamp to read and study in the hope of a better future. That was before their brother, who was only fourteen at the time, built windmills that brought electricity to his village of Masitala in Malawi, Africa. Now, this self-taught inventor is setting his sights even higher, aiming to light up an entire country! It all began with the famine of 2001 when food was so scarce in Malawi that ten thousand people died of starvation. William's family survived on just one meal a day, but they didn't have enough money to afford the $80-a-year tuition fees for William's school. Forced to drop out, he refused to give up and carried on his education from textbooks in the small local library. There he learnt all about electricity and motors, but it was the cover of one book in particular that truly captured his imagination. It showed windmills. "With "A windmill" I could stay awake at night reading instead of going to bed at seven with the rest of Malawi". William realised, "We'd finally release ourselves from the troubles of darkness and hunger". He set about building one from an old bicycle and pieces of scrap metal from tractors. Ignoring the other villagers (including his mother), who thought he was crazy, over two months he managed to assemble a 5-meter-high windmill that supplied enough power to light four small light bulbs. In a country where only 2% of the population has access to electricity, this was like a miracle! Villagers came from all around to see the electric wind. With the addition of another windmill that helped irrigate his father's crops, William was transforming his village through renewable energy all by himself. News of the boy who built windmills spread through blogs and newspaper articles. Bryan Mealer, an American journalist, had spent five years in Africa when he heard about William. He immediately knew that this was the story that he had been waiting for and in 2009, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, was published. Soon, influential people started to see that William was a real asset to his country and before long, he was invited to speak at conferences, he had documentaries made about him and universities abroad were offering him scholarships. William is currently studying for a degree in America, but he plans to return home with more ideas to help his village. Thanks to generous donations, Masitala now has clean drinking water and solar panels. William also finished a project to build new classrooms for his old primary school which is equipped with laptops that run on energy from his windmills. He still worries about his mother, though: "I haven't solved the problem of firewood. Each day, my mother has no choice but to walk three hours to collect a handful of wood to cook the family meal." It's a walk that gets longer every day as Malawi loses about 500 sq kilometres of forest every year due to illegal deforestation. Experiments with solar ovens made out of tinfoil haven't quite worked out yet, so for the moment William has turned to a more hands-on method - planting more trees. William Kamkwamba might not have the solution for everything just yet, but he's a shining example of all that can be achieved when just one person dreams of a better world. 1. William Kamkwamba built windmills in his village to 2. How did William continue his education after he had to drop out of school? 3. Why did William decide to build windmills for his village? 4. What did William use to build his first windmill? 5. What impact did William's windmills have on his village? 6. How did the news about William spread to a wider audience? 7. What did influential people in William's country recognize about him? 8. Where is William currently studying for a degree? 9. What has William done to help his village in addition to building windmills? 10. What does the passage suggest about William Kamkwamba?

Read the text and mark the statements below as True, False, or Not stated. Young children whose parents read aloud to them have better language and literacy skills when they go to school, according to a review published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Children who have been read aloud to are also more likely to develop a love of reading, which is more important than language and literacy. And the advantages they gain continue compared with the children who start out as poor readers in their first year of school and are likely to remain so. In addition, describing pictures in the book, explaining the meaning of the story and encouraging the child to talk about what was read to them and to ask questions can improve their understanding of the world and their social skills. The authors of the review explain that the style of reading has more impact on children’s early language and literacy development than the frequency of reading aloud. Middle-class parents tend to use a more interactive style, making connections to the child’s own experience or real world, explaining new words and the motivations of the characters, while working-class parents tend to focus more on labelling and describing pictures. These differences in reading styles can impact on children’s development of language and literacy-related skills. 1. The published review is about different children diseases. 2. Parents are recommended to read their children books with pictures. 3. Discussing the context of the book with the children helps them to improve social skills. 4. Middle-class parents and working class parents use the same reading style. 5. The frequency of reading aloud motivates children’s social experience. 6. Different reading styles don’t influence children’s language skills.