Empowering Females All around the World|世界各地都有女豪杰

Empowering Females All around the World

by Leigh Goldberg

A bright and charismatic 15-year-old girl has become the voice for females in Pakistan.

　　Prior to October 2012, the name Malala Yousafzai was little known outside of Pakistan's Swat Valley. Now, the whole world knows of this teenage advocate for female education on _(1)_ of her being shot in the head and neck by a Taliban gunman as she was returning home on a school bus. Fortunately, she _(2)_ the assassination attempt and is well on the way to recovery and continuing her fight for female education.

　　To understand what _(3)_ Yousafzai, you have to understand what her world is like. In Pakistan, three _(4)_ four females cannot read or write. That percentage is even worse in _(5)_ areas like the one Yousafzai lived in. What's more, the Taliban, an Islamist militant group that oftentimes bans girls _(6)_ attending school, started occupying her hometown in 2008.

　　Yousafzai loved school and learning from an early age, so the Taliban's rules didn't sit well with her. At the age of 11, she gave a speech _(7)_ How Dare the Taliban Take Away My Basic Right to Education? to the national press in the provincial capital of Peshawar. Soon after, she volunteered to blog _(8)_ about going to school under Taliban rule for the BBC. She dove into it with passion and spoke openly about her plight to a national audience. Eventually, her identity was made public and Yousafzai became a _(9)_ advocate for girls' education. She encouraged parents to break with tradition and let their daughters go to school, campaigned to raise government spending on schools, and motivated girls everywhere to stand up for their right to an education. Without a _(10)_, Malala Yousafzai will overcome this tragedy and continue to be a symbol of freedom, a voice of education, and a model of bravery for people all around the world.

(A) motivates  (B) entitled (C) from    (D) survived    (E) location

(F) rural     (G) account     (H) visible (I) anonymously    (J) out of

(K) doubt   (L) nearly

世界各地都有女豪杰

一位开朗又迷人的 15 岁少女成为巴基斯坦女性的发言人。

　　在 2012 年 10 月以前，玛拉拉‧尤苏芙扎这个名字在巴基斯坦的斯瓦特山谷外鲜为人知。由于她曾在搭校车返家的途中遭塔利班枪手射击头部和脖子，如今全世界都认识这位年纪轻轻的女性教育提倡者。值得庆幸的是，她从暗杀计划中幸存，如今她正迈向复元的道路，并且持续为女性教育奋斗。

　　若你想知道尤苏芙扎的动机为何，你得先了解她的世界。在巴基斯坦，每 4 位女性就有 3 位无法阅读或书写。在像尤苏芙扎所居住的乡下地区而言，此一比例又更低了。不仅如此，经常禁止女性求学的伊斯兰教好战组织塔利班于 2008 年开始占领她的家乡。

　　尤苏芙扎从小就热爱上学和学习事物，因此塔利班的法律和她的意见分歧。在 11 岁那一年，她对柏夏瓦省省会的全国媒体发表了一场以『塔利班怎敢剥夺我接受教育的基本权利？』为题的演讲。不久以后，她更自愿以匿名的方式为 BBC 部落格贴文，撰写在塔利班统治下的求学生活。她充满热忱地潜心研究，且对全国观众公开讲述她的困境。最终，她的身份被公诸于世，尤苏芙扎因此成为众人眼中的女性教育倡导者。她鼓励父母打破传统送他们的女儿就学、发起运动要求政府提高教育预算以及鼓舞世界各地的女孩为她们接受教育的权利挺身而出。毫无疑问地，玛拉拉‧尤苏芙扎会熬过这场悲剧，她在世人的眼中永远都会是自由的象征、教育的发声人和勇敢的表率。

答案： 1.   G   2.   D   3.   A   4.   J    5.   F

      6.   C   7.   B   8.   I     9.   H   10. K