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April 26, 2020
公众号【外教在线英语】
官网【www.ai-talk.com】
LEMON TREE
April 26, 2020
Teenage Engineers in Afghanistan Use Car Partsto Build Ventilators
Exercise 1- Vocabulary
ventilator – n. amachine that forces air into the lungs of a sick patient to keep them breathing
mission – n. animportant effort or job
proud – adj. muchpleased; feeling very good about someone or something
battery – n. anobject that provides electricity for things
pandemic – n. thespread of an infectious disease over a large area in a short period of time
Excercise2 - Article
Teenage Engineers in Afghanistan Use Car Partsto Build Ventilators
Young female engineers in Afghanistan are usingold car parts to develop ventilators to treat coronavirus patients.
The girls - ages 14 to 17 - are members of aprize-winning robotics team. They say they are on a life-saving mission.Somaya Farooqi is among them.
“If we even save one life with our device, wewill be proud,” she said.
On most mornings, Farooqi’s father drives thegirls to a workspace outside the western Afghan city of Herat, where they live.The trip takes careful planning to avoid police roadblocks set up to enforcestay-at-home orders for people in Herat.
There are a limited number of special permitsto avoid the police stops, but Farooqi’s father has not been able to get one.The girls say they have to work fast so they are willing to take risks totravel outside the city. “We are concerned about security driving out of thecity,” Farooqi said.
But there is no other way, she said, adding,“we have to try to save people’s lives.”
The team’sefforts would have been unthinkable in Afghanistan just a generation ago. UnderTaliban rule in the late 1990s, girls were not permitted to even go to school.Farooqi’s mother was forced to leave school in the third grade.
After the United States invaded Afghanistan in2001, girls were permitted to return to schools. The struggle to gain equalrights for females continues and the young engineers push forward with theirwork. “We are the new generation,” Farooqi said. “We fight and work for people.Girl and boy, it does not matter anymore.”
Afghanistan is facing the coronavirus crisiswith limited supplies of medical equipment. The country has just 400ventilators for its population of more than 36 million. So far, the country hasreported more than 1,000 cases of the virus, and about 30 deaths. But expertssay the number of cases are likely much higher since virus testing remains verylimited in the country.
More coronavirus cases have been reported inHerat province because it sits close to the border with Iran, which hasexperienced a severe spread.
The local spread of the virus led Farooqi andher team to try to come up with a medical solution. At their workspace, theteam has experimented with two different designs. One of them is based on plansdeveloped by engineers at America’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT).
Parts usedto build the ventilators include the motor of a small car device,car batteries and sets of oxygen pumps. A group of auto repair expertshelps the team build the ventilator structure.
DanielaRus, a professor at MIT, welcomed the team’s quick development efforts. “Itwill be excellent to see it tested and locally produced,” she said.
Afghan businesswoman Roya Mahboob founded therobotics team and raises money to empower girls in technology. She says shehopes Farooqi’s group will finish building a working model by May or June. Themodel will then be tested by the country’s health ministry, at first onanimals, a government spokesman said.
Somaya Farooqi says her team felt the need toseek a solution to help people at home. “Afghans should be helping Afghanistanin this pandemic,” she said. “We should not wait for others.”
Questions:
1. What breakthrough did the youngfemale engineers make in Afghanistan?
2. What parts did they use in makingsuch discovery?
3. What are the age brackets of theyoung female engineers?
4. Why is their invention beneficial?
5. How do their parents support them?
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By BarryFeng公众号【外教在线英语】
官网【www.ai-talk.com】
LEMON TREE
April 26, 2020
Teenage Engineers in Afghanistan Use Car Partsto Build Ventilators
Exercise 1- Vocabulary
ventilator – n. amachine that forces air into the lungs of a sick patient to keep them breathing
mission – n. animportant effort or job
proud – adj. muchpleased; feeling very good about someone or something
battery – n. anobject that provides electricity for things
pandemic – n. thespread of an infectious disease over a large area in a short period of time
Excercise2 - Article
Teenage Engineers in Afghanistan Use Car Partsto Build Ventilators
Young female engineers in Afghanistan are usingold car parts to develop ventilators to treat coronavirus patients.
The girls - ages 14 to 17 - are members of aprize-winning robotics team. They say they are on a life-saving mission.Somaya Farooqi is among them.
“If we even save one life with our device, wewill be proud,” she said.
On most mornings, Farooqi’s father drives thegirls to a workspace outside the western Afghan city of Herat, where they live.The trip takes careful planning to avoid police roadblocks set up to enforcestay-at-home orders for people in Herat.
There are a limited number of special permitsto avoid the police stops, but Farooqi’s father has not been able to get one.The girls say they have to work fast so they are willing to take risks totravel outside the city. “We are concerned about security driving out of thecity,” Farooqi said.
But there is no other way, she said, adding,“we have to try to save people’s lives.”
The team’sefforts would have been unthinkable in Afghanistan just a generation ago. UnderTaliban rule in the late 1990s, girls were not permitted to even go to school.Farooqi’s mother was forced to leave school in the third grade.
After the United States invaded Afghanistan in2001, girls were permitted to return to schools. The struggle to gain equalrights for females continues and the young engineers push forward with theirwork. “We are the new generation,” Farooqi said. “We fight and work for people.Girl and boy, it does not matter anymore.”
Afghanistan is facing the coronavirus crisiswith limited supplies of medical equipment. The country has just 400ventilators for its population of more than 36 million. So far, the country hasreported more than 1,000 cases of the virus, and about 30 deaths. But expertssay the number of cases are likely much higher since virus testing remains verylimited in the country.
More coronavirus cases have been reported inHerat province because it sits close to the border with Iran, which hasexperienced a severe spread.
The local spread of the virus led Farooqi andher team to try to come up with a medical solution. At their workspace, theteam has experimented with two different designs. One of them is based on plansdeveloped by engineers at America’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT).
Parts usedto build the ventilators include the motor of a small car device,car batteries and sets of oxygen pumps. A group of auto repair expertshelps the team build the ventilator structure.
DanielaRus, a professor at MIT, welcomed the team’s quick development efforts. “Itwill be excellent to see it tested and locally produced,” she said.
Afghan businesswoman Roya Mahboob founded therobotics team and raises money to empower girls in technology. She says shehopes Farooqi’s group will finish building a working model by May or June. Themodel will then be tested by the country’s health ministry, at first onanimals, a government spokesman said.
Somaya Farooqi says her team felt the need toseek a solution to help people at home. “Afghans should be helping Afghanistanin this pandemic,” she said. “We should not wait for others.”
Questions:
1. What breakthrough did the youngfemale engineers make in Afghanistan?
2. What parts did they use in makingsuch discovery?
3. What are the age brackets of theyoung female engineers?
4. Why is their invention beneficial?
5. How do their parents support them?