Erin Brockovich grew up in Kansas, USA. She studied at a business college for a year, and then she went to California.

In 1990, when she was thirty years old, she had a car accident. A law firm (律師事務(wù)所) helped her after the accident, so she started to work for them later.

Her job was to organize papers (文件). One day Erin realized that there were lots of very sick people in a place called Hinkley. She felt it was unusual, so she started to look for more information about the town.

Erin worked very hard for five years. She visited lots of sick people in Hinkley and listened to their stories. All the sick people lived near a big factory called Pacific Gas and Electric. Then she discovered that there was something called chromium in the water they drank. It was from the factory and Erin believed that the people were sick because of the chromium in their drinking water. She planned to help them.

Erin started a law case (訴訟) against Pacific Gas and Electric. The factory wasn’t happy about this. They didn’t agree that the people were ill because of the water — but in 1996 the judge (法官) ordered Pacific Gas and Electric to pay the people in Hinkley $500,000 each.

In 2000, there was a film about Erin Brockovich. Julia Roberts played Erin and the film was very successful. Now Erin is famous — she has her own firm and she gives talks all over the world.

1.Erin worked for a law firm because_______.

A. she studied law in college

B. she wanted to help sick people

C. the firm paid her lots of money

D. the firm helped her after a car accident

2.How might Erin feel when she found many papers had to do with Hinkley?

A. Strange. B. Satisfied. C. Angry. D. Worried.

3.What does the underlined word “discovered” in Paragraph 4 mean in Chinese?

A. 堅(jiān)持 B. 考慮 C. 發(fā)現(xiàn) D. 抱怨

4.Erin found the people in Hinkley were sick because of______.

A. the food they ate B. the water they drank

C. the house they lived in D. the factory they worked in

5.The passage is mainly about _______.

A. Erin’s life experience B. a film in 2000

C. how to work on a law case D. how to care for sick people

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