英语故事-海啸中拯救百余人 小天使当选年度风云儿童.pdfVIP

海啸中拯救百余人 小天使当选年度风云儿童 British Angle of the Beach named Child of the Year Tilly Smith, 10, of Britain, who is credited with saving 100 lives by alerting people of coming waves during the 2004 tsunami smiles during the first anniversary of the Asian disaster in Phuket, southern Thailand. Tilly Smith, the 11-year-old British girl, who was called as Angle of the Beach, saved 100 tourists from a Thai beach hit by last years tsunami and has been named Child of the Year by readers of a French childrens newspaper. She came ahead of a South African Aids orphan, a six-year-old girl who survived a kidnapping by paedophiles and a young Parisian pop singer to win the Mon Quotidien award. Tilly had studied tsunamis with her geography teacher, Andrew Kearney, shortly before flying to Thailand for a holiday with her parents and younger sister last year. As she watched the waves suddenly begin to recede, and the sea was bubbling,she warned her mother, Penny, that the beach was about to be struck by a tsunami. Mrs Smith and her husband, Colin, alerted other holidaymakers and hotel staff and scores of people were cleared from Maikhao beach at Phuket. Tilly, now 11, and back in Thailand for anniversary commemorations of the disaster, said: Its really good, just to know about tsunamis or any natural hazard in case you are in one. Im very glad that I was able to say on the beach that a tsunami was coming. And Im glad that they listened to me. She had earlier said that the state of the sea, which was sizzling and bubbling was exactly the same as in my geography lesson. Tilly read a Thai poem entitled Tsunami at a candle-light vigil （守夜）to commemorate victims of the disaster. She is unaware of her remarkable popularity among French children. Her picture appears on the front page of Mon Quotidien, which is read by 10 to 14-year-olds. Our readers chose