SAT备考资料：ESSAY写作素材（31）

　　SAT的写作在于平时的积累，考生们可在日常生活中多累积写作的素材，多练笔，培养出好的语感和逻辑，这样就能在考试中写出优秀的作文。为此，和谐英语网收集整理了一系列SAT的ESSAY写作素材，供考生们参考使用，更多有关留学考试的资讯与辅导资料敬请关注和谐英语网留学考试频道。

　　British "Angle of the Beach" named Child of the Year 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 year's tsunami and has been named Child of the Year by readers of a French children's 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: "It's really good, just to know about tsunamis or any natural hazard in case you are in one. "I'm very glad that I was able to say on the beach that a tsunami was coming. And I'm 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 Tilly because they could identify with her," said Fran?ois Dufour, the editor-in-chief. "To be a pop star at 11 seems impossible, and the idea of having Aids or being kidnapped is remote from their lives."