Miss World 2014 Goes to Bilingual Medical Student from South Africa： She Proves Her Beauty and Brai.docVIP

Miss World 2014 Goes to Bilingual Medical Student from South Africa： She Proves Her Beauty and Brai 　　一提起选美比赛，大家可能首先会联想到参赛者姣好的面容，美丽的外表。然而2014年世界小姐大赛却一改历年的评选标准，参赛选手们多半拥有大学学历，其中不乏“学霸”高材生，而冠军得主南非小姐就是她们其中的一个典型代表。 　　Miss South Africa， 22-year-old Rolene Strauss， was crowned Miss World 2014 at the pag-eant’s final in London， with an estimated billion viewers watching on television around the globe. Miss Hungary， Edina Kulcsar， was judged the run-ner-up and Miss United States， Elizabeth Safrit， came third. Rolene Strauss piped her fellow contestants to clinch first place in an action-packed three weeks that included a sports， top model and beach fashion competition， a talent contest， Beauty with a Purpose round and a debate at the Oxford Union. She beat 120 international contestants each deemed to be not only the most beautiful in their home countries， but the best example of what it means to be a modern woman. 　　So， who is Rolene Strauss-aka Miss World 2014-and is she really one of the world’s most eligible women？ 　　The beauty queen is a fourth year medical student and science is clearly in her blood. Rolene’s principle passion is medicine. She plans to complete her MBA after becoming a doctor. Her parents are a doctor and nurse， and in a pre-taped interview for the pageant， Rolene said that becoming Miss South Africa and Miss World and studying medicine were her“childhood dreams”.“Everyone in my town called me Little Dr. Strauss，”she said，“because I was always the little curly-headed girl running around behind my dad in the hospital.”“l’m a test tube baby and I believe my passion for health was born with me，”she added. As well as being a medical student， Rolene is bilingual and speaks fluent English， as well as Afrikaans. 　　Writing on her weDsite， she explains that she’s always had“big dreams”She said：“We moved to a small town called Volksrust，in Mpumalanga. Ever since then I was a small town girl with big dreams. To be the best me， to follow my destiny and some