2 Look at the bold words in the text and match them with the definitions. 1 world-famous a harmed or damaged (adj) 2 military (n) 3 injured (adv) 4 record (n) 5 height (n) 6 speed (n) 7 solo (adj) b how high something is c the best performance d soldiers and the army e without other people f how fast something moves g famous everywhere in the world 8 round-the-world h circling the Earth (adj)

1) Lewis said that in Iceland supermarkets had had a plastic bottle system.

2) He said that the shoppers HAD GOT 10p for every plastic bottle.

3) He said that the supermarket HAD SOLD 311,500 bottles.

4) Freya said that she and some of her friends HAD LEARNT to swim.

5) She said that it HAD TAKEN 25 minutes to get to Shetland with the teacher.

6) Abby said that she HAD HOPED to become the youngest person to sail

round the world alone.

7) She said that 8 years later some people HAD SEEN her boat near the coast of Australia.

8) Mr. Smith said that two very special Socorro dove chicks HAD APPEARED at Chester Zoo.

9) He said that the chicks HADN'T BEEN FOUND in the wild for 47 years.

According his biografy

At 4, Tanishq became a member of MENSA To become a member the only qualification is a score in the top 2 percentile of the general population on a standardized intelligence test.  

At 5, he completed all 5 grades of the math courses offered by Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth

At 6, he took high school and college courses in chemistry, paleontology, biology, and geology.

At 7, he took Geology and Astronomy courses in the American River College in Sacramento and cleared the courses with “A” grades.

At 8, he was a founding vice-president for an Astronomy club at his college. At 10 years old, he received his high school diploma. At age 11 he received associate degrees in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, General Science and Foreign Language Studies, with a Grade Point Average ) score of 4.0 from American River College

While 7 he also completed an online chemistry course at UC Berkeley.

At 9, he became a member of the two-year college honor society Phi Theta Kappa, and at age 10, he was elected Vice-President of Communications for the 2013-2014 term and re-elected for 2014 to 2015. At 9, he became the youngest person to present at a NASA conference.  

At 9 he also gave a TED Talk and appeared on Conan O'Brien Presents: Team Coco.

His most recent accomplishment, is at age 12 he was accepted into UC Davis and received a regents scholarship to UC Santa Cruz.