阅读理解。                                 Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamb

阅读理解。                                 Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamb

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阅读理解。                                 Saving the Planet with Earth-Friendly Bamboo Products
     Jackie Heinricher"s love affair with bamboo started in her backyard. "As a child, I remember playing
among the golden bamboo my dad had planted, and when there was a slight wind, the bamboos sounded
really musical."
     A fisheries biologist, Heinricher, 47, planned to work in the salmon industry in Seattle, where she lived
with her husband, Guy Thornburgh, but she found it too competitive. Then her garden gave her the idea
for a business:She"d planted 20 bamboo forests on their seven-acre farm.
     Heinricher started Boo-Shoot Gardens in 1998. She realized early on what is just now beginning to be
known to the rest of the world. It can be used to make fishing poles, skateboards, buildings, fumiture,
floors, and even clothing. An added bonus: Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group
of hardwood trees and releases 35 percent more oxygen.
     First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants-a tough task, since bamboo nowers create seed
only once every 50 to 100 years. And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it. 
     Heinricher appealed to Randy Burr, a tissue culture expert, to help her. "People kept telling us we"d never
figure it out," says Heinricher. "Others had worked on it for 27 years! I believed in what we were doing,
though, so I just kept going."
     She was right to feel a sense of urgency. Bamboo forests are being rapidly used up, and a United Nations
report showed that even though bamboo is highly renewable, as rnany as half of the world"s species are
threatened with dying out. Heinricher knew that bamboo could make a significant impact on carbon emissions
(排放) and world economies, but only if huge numbers could be pmduced. And that"s just what she and Burr
figured out after nine years of experiments-a way to grow millions of plants. By placing cuttings in test tubes
with salts, vitamins,plant hormones, and seaweed gel, they got the plants to grow and then raised them in soil
in greenhouses.
     Not long after it, Burr"s lab hit financial difftculties. Heinricher had rlo experience running a tissue culture
operation, but she wasn"t prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.
     Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimillion-dollar company, working on species from all over the
world and selling them to wholesalers. "If you want to farm bamboo, it"s hard to do without the young plants,
and that"s what we have," she says proudly. 1. What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely? [     ]
A. They didn"t have enough young bamboo.
B. They were short of money and experience.
C. They didn"t have a big enough farm to do it.
D. They were not understood by other people. 2. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?[     ]
A. Fragile and affordable
B. Productive and flexible
C. Useful and earth-friendly
D. Strong and profitable 3. The underlined word "renewable" in Paragraph 6 probably means "_____".[     ]
A. able to be replaced naturally
B. able to be raised difficultly
C. able to be shaped easily
D. able to be recycled conveniently 4. What do you learn farm the passage? [     ]
A. Heinricher"s love for bamboo led to her experlments in the lab.
B. Heinricher"s detennimtion helped her to succeed in her work.
C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.
答案
1-4: ACAB
举一反三
完形填空。     I have learned to expect gifts from God in the form of people. People who I meet for a few seconds, a
few hours or even for   1  .
     My wife and I   2   a short train ride on an old train. It was   3   of her birthday plan. I was expecting to
meet someone new who would   4   at our table. That was to be my   5   for that day.
     We weren"t seated for two minutes   6   I heard, "Would you mind if I   7   you?" I replied,  "  8  . I was
expecting you!"
     He was in his early sixties and   9   introduced himself. But for the following 45 minutes, he never stopped
  10  loudly. If there was a pause in the conversation, it was because  11  on the train was giving us some
backgroud information about the old train.  12 , this gentleman kept speaking to us about himself. Some things
he said were very interesting, but most was a complaint about his experience as a  13  and different types of
law. He never asked  14  of us what we did.
     So, if  15  did send him, what was the message this time?
     He needed  16  and I needed to be reminded how important it was to listen to pelple,  17  for a few seconds,
a few hours or for a lifetime. Perhaps I was sent to him. Maybe he was  18  to God to meet someone who  19 
     God gave us two ears and one mouth, because we need to listen  20  as much as we speak.
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(     )1.A.a lifetime     
(     )2.A.put            
(     )3.A.part           
(     )4.A.explain        
(     )5.A.inspiration     
(     )6.A.after           
(     )7.A.seatcd          
(     )8.A.Go ahead        
(     )9.A.formally        
(     )10.A.complaining     
(     )11.A.a tour guide    
(     )12.A.However       
(     )13.A.supporter       
(     )14.A.each            
(     )15.A.someone         
(     )16.A.to improve      
(     )17.A.once          
(     )18.A.praying       
(     )19.A.should listen   
(     )20.A.much more     
B.a few months 
B.enjoyed      
B.gift         
B.glare        
B.expectation  
B.when         
B.joined in    
B.Never mind  
B.politely    
B.weeping      
B.a conductor  
B.Sometimes   
B.professor    
B.every       
B.God         
B.to talk     
B.by contrast  
B.talking     
B.maybe listen      
B.twice        
C.several years  
C.took           
C.dream         
C.come          
C.gift          
C.suddenly       
C.talked with   
C.Forget it     
C.immediately   
C.talking       
C.a consumer     
C.Moreover      
C.mayor          
C.either        
C.my wife       
C.to control    
C.if only        
C.desiring       
C.must listen       
C.with two      
D.a long time    
D.planned       
D.intention     
D.sit            
D.conversation  
D.before        
D.joined        
D.With pleasure             
D.intelligently 
D.laughing      
D.a trairier     
D.Otherwise     
D.lawyer         
D.one           
D.the train     
D.to target     
D.other than    
D.begging        
D.would listen   
D.a lot more    
完形填空。
     Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. However, I was not thinking about the
golden chain when I had to help people who   1   their way and parked in front of my house.
     I was growmg tired of helping so many people. Almost every   2   I was awaken during a sound night"s
sleep and had to   3   someone out. Many times I was   4   by some penniless motorists who did not even
thank me for the helps that they received and some even complained that I could have done   5  .
     One day, a young man with a week-old beard climbed out of a   6   automobile. He had no money and
no food.He asked if I could give him some   7  , offer him gasoline and a meal. I told him that if he wanted
to work for me, he could cut the grass, but   8   the work wasn"t necessary.
     Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard. After working all day, he sat   9   to cool himself. I thanked
him for his work and gave him the money he  10 . I then offered him some  11  money for a task particularly
well done, but he shook his head,  12 .
     I never saw him again. He probably thinks I helped him out that day, but that is not  13  it was. I didn"t
help him. He helped me to  14  people again to repay their trust in me. He helped me to once again want to do
something for those who are  15 . I wish I could thank him for  16  some of my belief in the basic  17  of
others and for giving me back a little of the  18  I had lost. Because of him, I once again felt part of a golden
chain of kindness that  19  us to others.
     I may have fed his body that day, but he fed my  20 .
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(     )1.A.fought           
(     )2.A.morning          
(     )3.A.bring              
(     )4.A.taken for granted   
(     )5.A.less               
(     )6.A.fashionable        
(     )7.A.money             
(     )8.A.actually           
(     )9.A.in the sun       
(     )10.A.asked              
(     )11.A.old                
(     )12.A.accepted          
(     )13.A.the situation      
(     )14.A.believe in         
(     )15.A.in trouble         
(     )16.A.forgetting         
(     )17.A.goodness           
(     )18.A.weakness           
(     )19.A.adapts             
(     )20.A.heart            
B.found        
B.afternoon   
B.help           
B.put up with    
B.more          
B.famous         
B.food          
B.specially     
B.in the shade   
B.begged        
B.extra          
B.received      
B.the thing     
B.watch over          
B.in danger      
B.losing         
B.happiness     
B.strength      
B.adjusts       
B.soul         
C.made         
C.night        
C.carry        
C.turned down   
C.worse        
C.flashy        
C.help         
C.particularly         
C.in the field  
C.needed       
C.small        
C.refused      
C.the issue    
C.look after   
C.in tears      
C.restoring    
C.pleasure     
C.optimism     
C.devotes       
C.head         
D.lost         
D.evening      
D.drive        
D.taken up with 
D.enough       
D.shabby       
D.work         
D.generally               
D.in the car    
D.charged      
D.good         
D.denied       
D.the way      
D.care about   
D.in fear      
D.finding      
D.nature       
D.pessimism    
D.connects     
D.mouth        
阅读理解。
     A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and loved the boy
very much. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open.
He was late for office so he asked his wife to cap the bottle and put it back into the cupboard in the bathroom.
However, his wife, busy in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.
     The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle fascinated by its color and drank it all. It happened
to contain a kind of medicine for adults with poisonous and side effects. When the child broke down, the
mother hurried him to the hospital. But he finally died. The mother was shocked. She was terrified how she
was going to face her husband.
     When the desperate father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and voiced
just five words. The husband just said "I am with you, Darling". The husband"s totally unexpected reaction is
a positive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault
with the mother. Besides, if only he had taken time to keep the bottle away, this would not have happened.
No one is to be blamed. she had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was comfort and
sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.
     If evervone can look at life with this kind of viewpoint, there would be much fewer problems in the world.
Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually
not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether
in a relationshlp, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human
relationship.
1. The uncapped medical bottle was not put back into the cupboard because _____. 
[     ]
A. the husband was careless
B. the husband was busy
C. the wife wasn"t infomed of the matter
D. the wife ignored the matter
2. What do we know about the bottle? _____.
[     ]
A. It contained poison only for adults
B. It appeared like a nice drink
C. It was broken by the child
D. It was kept in the kitchen
3. The husband"s attitude towards his wife can be described as _____.
[     ]
A. optimistic
B. confident
C. considerate
D. generous
4. What did the writer intend to tell us about life? _____.
[     ]
A. Let go the negative side and we can enjoy life
B. It is always useless finding who is responsible
C. Think of nothing and life will be easy
D. Life should give way to responsibility
阅读理解。
     Until quite rccently, I knew only three things about my father: I knew his name, David S. Johnson, Jr.
I knew he was an only child, and I"d been told he was killed on April 12, 1945, somewhere in Germany.
     I used to come to visit my Granny. "Daddy David and his two friends were out in the fields, making
sure the way was safe for the others to follow," she told me. "All of a sudden there was an explosion. All
three of them were killed." Granny was looking down, stroking one thin hand with the other. Then there
were no words but silence.
     I began my search and collection for information about my father as my 50th birthday and the 50th
anniversary of his death drew near. I was told that the explosion had blown him to bits and I had great
difficulty collecting anything I could find about him bit by bit. Bits of information about him began falling
into my hands, my mind and my heart. Longing to know my father kept me connected to him. It was time
to transform my longing into knowledge.
     Once upon a time, he was alive, and my mother and father were in love. They were married, and they
had a child, my brother, David. Then my father left for the war.
     I was born in January 1945. On February 15 my father wrote me a letter of welcome. The letter is kept
in my baby book, "Dear Susan, you have a very good family. Your dad is sort of a less able person. Your
mother is the most wonderful person I"ve ever known. I"ve always amazed at my great good fortune to
have loved her and been loved by her. If you follow her words and examples, you may expect to meet life
in the best possible way, and your path will always be the right one. Your father, Dave."
     Black on white paper, the words are from my father. From them I grow into a person of loyalty and love.
How I long for stories that will bring him to life!
1. The writer got to know her father"s story of death from _____.
[     ]
A. her father"s friends 
B. someone in Germany
C. her grandmother 
D. a little child
2. The author meet difficulty finding information about her father because _____.
[     ]
A. it was too late for her to start the search 
B. the explosion left little about her father
C. she only found pieces of hands and legs
D. she didn"t have enough knowledge to do it
3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? 
[     ]
A. Her parents had only one child
B. Her father died before her birth
C. Her father was a disabled man
D. The writer never saw her father
4. We know from the last paragraph that the author _____.
[     ]
A. still hates her father for having left
B. is curious about her father"s death
C. shows much respect for her father
D. is sure that her father may survive
Cloze test.
     This is a true story about something that happened between a customer of General Motors and its Customer-
Care Executive (客服主管). The following complaint was received by General Motors "...It may sound crazy,
but it"s a fact that every time I buy a   1   ice cream, and come back from the store, my car won"t start. If I get
any other kind of ice cream, the car starts   2   fine. Why?" The executive was   3   about the letter, but sent an
engineer to check it out anyway.
     The   4   made three visits to the store with the customer. The first time, he got chocolate ice cream. The car
started. The second time, he ordered strawberry. The car started. The third time he got vanilla. The car failed to
start. The engineer   5   to believe that the man"s car was allergic (过敏的) to vanilla ice cream. He   6   his visits,
and noted all sorts of data: the types of gas used and the time it took to drive back and forth.
     Soon he came a clue: it took the man less   7   to buy vanilla than any other flavor (味道). Why? The answer
was in the layout (布局) of the store. Vanilla, as the most   8   flavor, was in the front of the store for quick
pickup. All the other flavors were kept further back, where it took longer to buy them.
     Time was now the   9   not the vanilla ice cream! The engineer quickly put forward an answer:"engine
trouble." The extra time taken to get any other flavor 10  the engine to cool down longer. When the man got
vanilla, the engine was still too hot to start.
     Even crazy-looking problems can be real. What really  11  is your attitude to the problem.
     Don"t just say something is "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere effort into  12  it out. If you look closer,
you may discover that it"s possible after all.
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