HIGHER REACHES ANSWERS: Hong Kong social entrepreneur who quit her job to help others on fighting inequality and saving the environment [May 15, 2018]
1. It implies that her friends didn't consider her decision normal, and that they felt most people wouldn’t make that choice. / It implies her friends were worried about her reasons for quitting her job. / It implies that her friends didn't believe she could be happy out of the corporate world.
2. Any two of:
(i) enthusiastic
(ii) brave
(iii) generous
(iv) kind-hearted
(v) grateful
(vi) genuine
3. Ng believes we can cause big positive change by making small changes to the things that we do every day.
4. (i) epiphany
(ii) issues
(iii) philanthropy
5. Paragraph 6 implies that the government and parents don't see girls as having the potential to be anything other than wives and mothers.
6. By paying for six girls to train as athletes, the charity will show Nepali society that young women have a lot of potential, so they don't have to get married so young.
7. D
8. C
9. A