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In South Sudan, girls face many barriers (障碍) to education. Some girls cannot 1to attend school because their parents cannot meet the costs, and there is also2housework for girls, which takes up their time. Therefore, their parents don't 3 their daughters to go to school.
Another problem is that girls can be married off early, often4force. We don't have the 5 to choose the person we wish to marry. Our parents 6 us to the one who pays the highest price in cows. Now more people are going hungry and marrying off girls to get cows to 7. This happened to me. My parents married me off when I was studying, and I had to8 school.
Luckily, my brother helped me come to ASEW, which 9 to help girls finish school.
I saw that the headteacher was a woman and that 10 me. ASEW was a school without punishment and schoolfees (学费). It was a day school, not boarding school (寄宿学校), that gave me 11to help at home. The curriculum was 12 so we could complete our education more quickly. It was also 13 ， protected from outsiders. It is extremely dangerous for women and girls 14 there is fighting all around Rumbek.
At ASEW, I studied hard and passed with a high score of 77 percent. I wish other girls could have 15like me to go back to school.
The US government has recently helped people learn more about the dangers of earthquakes by publishing a map. This map shows the chances of an earthquake in each part of the country. The areas of the map where earthquakes are most likely to occur are called earthquake belts. The government is spending a great deal of money and is working hard to help to discover the answers to these two questions：
Can we predict earthquakes?
Can we control earthquakes?
To answer the first question, scientists are looking very closely at the most active fault (断层) systems in the country, such as the San Andreas fault in California. A fault is a break between two sections of the earth's surface. These breaks between sections are the places where earthquakes occur. Scientists look at the faults for changes which might show that an earthquake was about to occur. But it will probably be many years before we can predict earthquakes correctly. And the control of earthquakes is even farther away.
However, there have been some interesting developments in the field of controlling earthquakes. The most interesting development concerns the Rocky Mountain Arsenal earthquakes. Here water was put into a layer of rocks 4, 000 metres below the surface of the ground. Shortly after this injection (注射) of water, there was a small number of earthquakes. Scientists have decided that the water which was injected into the rocks worked like oil on each other.
When the water "oiled" the fault, the fault became slippery and the energy of an earthquake was given out. Scientists are still experimenting at the site of these earthquakes. They have realized that there is a connection between the injection of the water and the earthquake activity. They have suggested that it might be possible to use this knowledge to prevent very big, dangerous earthquakes, that is, scientists could inject some kind of fluid like water into faults and change one big earthquake into a number of small, harmless earthquakes.
Theatre audiences usually rise to their feet only during breaks or when the curtain comes down. For a special production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, however, getting up and moving around is required if you want to catch all of the action.
The production is staged in the James J. Hill House in St. Paul, Minnesota. The action takes place in several rooms on several levels of the 36, 000squarefoot building.
This is not the first time that the Wayward Theatre Company has chosen a special place to stage a theatrical production. Cofounder and director Sarah Nargang said that the group prefers to perform (表演) in untraditional spaces. She noted, "It allows people to communicate with these spaces, as well as the text, in new and interesting ways."
Besides the James J. Hill House, the group has performed at the Minnesota Transportation Museum, in hotel rooms, and in the back of a brewery (酒厂).
"We usually choose a play and then find a place for it," Nargang said. "But we try to choose historic places as much as we can."
The James J. Hill House was built for a railroad businessman of the same name. The fivestory mansion (豪宅) sits on a large area of land overlooking the city of St. Paul and the Mississippi River. Completed in 1891, in what was known as the Gilded Age, it is now owned by the Minnesota Historical Society.
"The James J. Hill House allowed us to stage Hamlet during the Gilded Age and show much of rich people's lives of that time," Nargang said.
Performing Hamlet in a mansion affected the way the production was choreographed (为……编舞). "Entering and exiting are more difficult because you don't have many choices of where you can go," said Tim McVean, who plays the role of Hamlet.
"There's a lot more running around," added actor Tim Perfect, who plays Claudius, the ruler who marries Hamlet's mother. "But there's no way any stage could compete with this place for beauty."
