Text to Read English B2

Starfish

‘A.woman was cling exhausted because she had been

working all day in the city, so she decided to drive out to

the sea, After shell driven for over an hour, she arrived ata

beautiful, deverted stretch of sind just as the sun was going

down.

‘The sea was at its highest point of the day, but the tide was

just beginning to go out, so she parked her car and started

‘walking. She was strolling along the beach when she noticed

4 young man who seemed to be dancing at the water’ edge

‘She watched hhim, as time and again he bent down, picked

something up and then theew it into the sea,

‘As she drew nearer to the man, she saw on the sand

‘thousands of statish which had been washed onto the beach

y the tide, She was amazed because she'd never seen so

rmuny starfish at once but, at the same time, she thought it was

asad and hopeless sight because the stranded starfish seemed

sure to die when the tide went out and they dried up. Then

she noticed that one by one, the young man was tossing them,

back into the sea. As she watched, it seemed clear to her that

his efforts were futile, that no matter how fast or hard he

‘worked, most of the starfish were doomed to die. Intrigued,

the woman sid to the young man, There are starfish as far

as the eye can see, What diderence can saving a few of themnake?”