I am Turere. I come from Kitengela, a farming community on the edge(邊緣) of Nairobi National Park of Kenya(肯尼亞). Since the age of nine. I have helped to look after my family's cows. As a child, in my free time. I enjoyed playing with electronics. I made my own inventions, such as electronic toys from car parts and other things. I also built other electronic devices(儀器) for my neighbors.

At the age of 13, I invented something that changed my life. It also changed the lives of many people in my community. One night, a lion from the park came into my family's farm and killed one of our cows. I was angry. However, killing the lion, I thought, was not the best way to solve the problem. Instead, I decided to invent a solution

The first idea I got was to use fire, because I thought lions were scared of fire. But I came to realize that that didn't really help, because it was even helping the lions to see through the cowshed (牛棚). So I didn't give up. I continued.

And a second idea I got was to use a scarecrow(稻草人). I was trying to trick the lions into thinking that I was standing near the cowshed. But lions are very clever. They will come the first day and they see the scarecrow, and they go back. But the second day, they'll come and they say, this thing is not moving here, it is always here! So he jumps in and kills the animals.

So one night, I was walking around the cowshed with a torch(手電筒), and that day the lions didn't come. And I discovered that lions were afraid of a moving light. So I had an idea.

1.What was Turere interested in when he was a child?

A.Tricking the neighbors. B.Looking after cows.

C.Playing with electronics. D.Making car parts

2.What does the underlined word "it"in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A.The lion. B.The scarecrow. C.The cow. D.The cowshed

3.What's the solution to driving the lion away?

A.Using a moving light. B.Using a torch. C.Using a scarecrow. D.Using fire.

4.What can we get from the passage?

A.The lion killed all the cows. B.Turere killed the lion at last.

C.The lion no longer lived in the park. D.Turere's invention made peace with lions.

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