Forget Britney Spears, who is the new pop princess that makes thousands of American teenage girls
scream with excitement at her concerts and rush to the store to buy her latest CD?
The answer is Miley Cyrus. After starring in popular TV shows and hit movies, the 16yearold released
her fifth album, The Time of Our Lives, on August 28.Its lead single, Party in the U. S.A., is wildly
popular.
Cyrus has built her success largely on a role she has played. On TV and the silver screen, Miley Cyrus
is Miley Stewart.She is popular at school during the day and at night, she is a famous pop singer named
Hannah Montana.
Her soaring popularity goes to her head. So Stewart"s father takes her home from Los Angeles to
Tennessee, a southern US state, for a dose of reality(体验生活). The journey kicks_off an adventure
filled with fun, laughter and romance.
While there, she has to cope with her city girl"s unfamiliarity with country life and gradually learn what
family is all about.
"Hannah Montana, at heart, is every Disney princess show you"ve ever seen," writes Michael
O"Sullivan, a reporter with the Washington Post."Only with a limo(房车)instead of a
pumpkinturnedcoach(南瓜马车), a microphone stand instead of a magic wand(魔法棒)and a prince
who wears a cowboy hat."
But the journey of looking for one"s inner self goes beyond the big screen. Actress Miley Cyrus has a
celebrity father, Billy Ray Cyrus, a famous country singer.The teenager doesn"t want people to think she
has taken a shortcut to success."It"s about how I find out who I am. I get to know that you need to be
able to take time to realize who you are," she said."I don"t want to be some celebrity"s daughter, just be
me."
1. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Miley Cyrus released five albums when she was sixteen years old.
B. The Time of Our Lives is her fifth album.
C. Party in the U. S.A. is very popular.
D. Thousands of American teenagers rush to the store to buy Miley"s latest CD.
2. Why did his father take her to the country?
A. Because she got dizzy with success.
B. Because she wanted to play in the movies.
C. Because she wanted to make adventure.
D. Because her father liked country life.
3. What"s the meaning of the underlined words "kicks off" in the fourth paragraph?
A. sets out
B. ends up with
C. goes through
D. suffers from
4. What do we learn from the last paragraph?
A. Miley wants to take a shortcut success.
B. Miley"s father is a famous country singer.
C. Miley wants to succeed by herself.
D. Teenagers like her father.
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 sevenacre farm.
Heinricher started BooShoot 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, furniture,
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 massproduce the plants-a tough task, since bamboo flowers 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 many 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 produced. 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 difficulties. Heinricher had no experience running a tissue
culture operation, but she wasn"t prepared to quit. So she bought the lab.
Today Heinricher heads up a profitable multimilliondollar company, working on species from all over
the world and selling them to wholesalers(批发商). "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 earthfriendly.
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 from the passage?
A. Heinricher"s love for bamboo led to her experiments in the lab.
B. Heinricher"s determination helped her to succeed in her work.
C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.
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