Pre-reading

Question: Who is the old woman?

Intensive Reading

An old woman comes to the Louvre in Paris, France. She sits on a wheelchair.

一位老妇人来到法国巴黎的卢浮宫。她坐在轮椅上。

She throws flowers around her. She come to the room with the Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa is a famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The woman stands up. She hits the painting. Luckily, glass is in front of the painting. The woman hits the glass. Then she throws cake at it.

她在周围扔花。她来到有蒙娜丽莎的房间。蒙娜丽莎是达芬奇的名作。这名妇人站了起来。她袭击了画作。幸运的是，画作前有玻璃挡着。妇人袭击的是玻璃。然后她朝画作扔蛋糕。

The room is full of shocked people. The security come. They see that the person is not an old woman. He is a man. He shouts that people don’t care about our planet.

房间里充满了震惊的人们。安保人员来了。他们看见这个人不是一名老妇人。他是一名男子。他喊着人们不在乎我们的地球。

In the past, people attack the Mona Lisa. The special glass keeps it safe since the 1950s.

过去，人们袭击过蒙娜丽莎。从1950年代起，它就被特殊的玻璃保护起来。

Notes:

1. wheelchair：n. 轮椅，由wheel（轮子）和chair（椅子）两个词组合而成。

2. throw：v. 扔，“朝……扔”可以用throw sth. at来表示。

3. security：n. 原意为“安全”，也用来指“安保部门，安保人员”。

4. full of：装满，充满。

Exercise:

请根据文章内容，回答下述问题：

Is the painting destroyed?