Pre-reading

Question: How old is the woman when she dies?

Intensive Reading

Kane Tanaka is the oldest woman in the world. She is 119 years old. She dies on April 19.

田中金江是世界上最长寿的女性。她119岁了。她逝世于4月19日。

Tanaka lives in the city of Fukoka, Japan. She marries an owner of a shop when she is 19 years old. Tanaka works in the shop until she is 103.

田中生活在日本福冈市。她19岁和一家商店主结婚。她在这家商店一直工作到103岁。

The woman spends the last years of her life in a nursing home. A nursing home is a place where elderly people live. Tanaka likes math. She likes to learn new things. Her family says that these things help her live so long.

这位女性在一家养老院度过晚年。养老院是年长者生活的地方。田中喜欢数学。她喜欢学习新东西。她的家人说这些事情帮助她活得更长。

Tanaka is born in 1903. She lives through both world wars. She survives the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. She survives COVID-19, too.

田中1903年出生。她经历了两次世界大战。她在1918年的西班牙流感中存活下来，又挺过了新冠病毒。

Notes:

1. nursing home：养老院，nursing是“看护，护理”的意思。

2. live through：度过，经过住。

3. survive：v. 幸存，（经历事故、战争或疾病后）活下来，跟live through的意思接近。

Exercise:

请根据文章内容，回答下述问题：

When is Tanaka born?