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5.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 20bamboo 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,furniture,floors,and even clothing.An added bonus:Bamboo absorbs four times as much carbon dioxide as a group of hardwood trees and releases 35percent more oxygen.
First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants-a tough task,since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50to 100years.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 27years!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 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.

56.What was the main problem with planting bamboo widely?A
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.
57.What does Heinricher think of bamboo?C
A.Renewable and acceptable       B.Productive and flexible.
C.Useful and earth-friendly.    D.Strong and profitable.
58.The underlined word"renewable"in Paragraph 6probably means"A".
A.able to be replaced naturally                B.able to be raised difficultly
C.able to be shaped easily                     D.able to be recycled conveniently
59.What do you learn from the passage?B
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.

分析 Jackie Heinricher开始爱上了她后院的竹子."在小时候,我记得我在爸爸种植的金竹旁玩耍,当有微风吹过时,竹子发出了令人难以置信的音乐.这就是我的魔幻区域."
  Heinricher,47岁是通过培训的渔业生物学家,计划在西雅图干鲑鱼工业,在那里她与丈夫盖伊索恩伯勒生活,但她发现这个行业竞争力太强了.她的花园给了她办一个业务的想法:她要在她的7英亩的农场上种植20棵竹子,并已取得了一些成功繁殖的成果,在那些小花园里(每小时成长二英寸,成为了一个景观,好像没有那么快).
  Heinricher于1998年承包了竹笋花园.她意识这些只是刚刚开始:令人难以置信的是竹子多才多艺,非常环保.它可以用来制造捕鱼杆,滑板,建筑,家具,地板,甚至是服装和床上用品(织物软丝绸).另外一个好处:竹子作为一种硬木树可吸收四倍二氧化碳,并释放更多的氧气,大概超过百分之三十五.如果Heinricher可以利用她的园艺技能来推动绿色环保事业,这样会更好.
  起初,她不得不找到一种方法,来大规模的生产,这是一项艰巨的任务,因为竹子花产生种子每50到100年才一次.所以竹子工厂经常没有材料可用.
  Heinricher呼吁组织培养专家兰迪伯尔帮助她."人们不停地说我们没有成果出来"Heinricher说."很多人工作了27年,我相信我们所做的,所以,我们只要坚持,不放弃."
  她是感觉到有一种紧迫感.竹林正在迅速枯竭,联合国的一份报告表明,即使是高度可再生竹子,有多达一半的世界物种濒临灭绝.Heinricher知道竹子可以对二氧化碳排放量和世界经济有重大的影响,但前提是可以大量生产.而这只是她和伯尔经过9年实验得出的结论-可以让植物成千上万的增长.把剪好的竹子放入试管中,与盐,维生素,植物激素,和海藻胶混合,植物发芽了,然后拿出来,把他们放在温室的土壤中.
  在破解了代码之后,伯尔的实验室遇到了财政问题.Heinricher在组织培养操作中没有任何经验,但她不准备辞职.于是,她购买了实验室."这是一场可怕的挑战,"她说."我从5个员工干到了55个员工[包括伯尔].我不怎么睡觉.一夜之间就像在新兵训练营里一样.有时候,我奇怪我怎么会在这里."
  今天Heinricher拥有了一个盈利数百万美元的公司,与世界各地有贸易往来."如果你想做农场竹子业,没有植株很难完成,这就是我们所经历的"她说.

解答 56---59 ACAB
56.答案A.细节理解题.根据第四段First she had to find a way to mass-produce the plants-a tough task,since bamboo flowers create seed only once every 50to 100years.And dividing a bamboo plant frequently kills it可知,竹子花产生种子每50到100年才一次,所以她们面临的最大问题是没有足够的竹子.故选A.
57.答案C.细节理解题.根据第三段"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 35percent more oxygen"可知,Heinricher认为竹子多才多艺,非常环保.故选C.
58.答案A.词义猜测题.根据"though bamboo is highly renewable,as many as half of the world's species are threatened with dying out"可知,前后两句话之间为转折关系,故renewable与dying out意思相反,故选A.renewable可更新的,能再生的.
59.答案B.主旨大意题.根据全文可知,Heinricher是一个意志坚定的人,不管遇到多大的困难,她的决心都不会变.故选B 她的决心帮助她获得成功.

点评 科普类的阅读理解包含介绍科学知识、社会知识的短文.阅读这类短文时,要以事实为中心进行思考,抓住事物的特征、用途、相互关系等.如果是介绍社会现象的文章,要掌握所谈现象的内涵.答题技巧:1.加强整体意识,把握文章的主要内容.在阅读的时候可给段落标上序号,并给重要的句子和关键词做上记号,尤其是各段中心句,为答题提供更快捷更多的信息源.2.审清题干,发觉和把握试题中有效的提示性信息,确认命题的角度、阅读范围和答题方式.3.定位阅读,强化对应意识.同时要注意原文利用和自我加工相结合.

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B.How the unborn frogs know when a snake is about to attack them.
C.Another example of animals that responds to fear in an unexpected way.
D.How tree frogs improve their chances of survival before falling into the.
17.Shopping is not as simple as you may think!There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand 商标of product on the shelf.
Colouring,for example,varies according to what the producers are trying to sell.Health foods are packaged in greens,yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours.Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods,like chocolates,are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently,researchers found that the colours turned the cusstomers off  because they made the product look weak and ineffective.Eventually,it came on the market in a dark blue and white package-blue because we think of it as safe,and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper.But quite often a bottle doesn't contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend,on average,70percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it's not enough to have a good product.The founder of Pears soap,who for 25years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods,came to the conclusion:"Any fool can make soap,but it takes a genius to sell it."

26.Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?C
A.The cost of its package.
B.The price of the product.
C.The colour of its package.
D.The brand name of the product.
27.The underlined part"the colours turned the customers off"(in Para.3)means that the coloursB.
A.attracted the customers strongly
B.caused the customers to lose interest
C.tricked the customers into shopping
D.had weak effects on the customers
28.Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?A
A.The way to promote goods.
B.The discovery of a genius.
C.The team to produce a good product.
D.The brand name used by successful producers.
29.According to the passage,which of the following statement is true?D
A.Making soap is so easy that any fool in the world can make it.
B.Greens,yellows or silver are considered to be healthy colours.
C.25years ago,the founder of Pears soap was a pretty girl herself.
D.The size of a product can have an effect on the shoppers.
30.Which of the following would be the best title for this text?C
A.Choice of Good Products         
B.Disadvantages of Products
C.Effect of Packaging on Shopping   
D.Brand Names and Shopping Tricks.
14.There is a kind of guys you'd rather hate and Kevin is among them.He is always in a good mood and always has something (41)C to say.When asked how he was doing,he would reply,"If I were any better,I'd be twins!"He was a natural (42)D.
One day I asked him how he did it.Kevin replied,"Each morning I say to myself,‘Kevin,you have two choices today.You can choose to be in a good mood or in a bad mood.'I choose to be in a good mood.Each time something bad (43)A,I can choose to be a (an)(44)B or to learn from it.I choose to learn from it."
"It isn't that (45)D."I protested.
"Yes it is,"Kevin said."Life is all about(46)A.You choose how you (47)B to situations.You choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood.The(48)A line is:You're your choice how you live life."
Several years later,Kevin was (49)D in a serious accident,(50)Boff 60feet from a communication tower.I saw him when he was (51)C from the hospital with rods placed in his back.I asked him what had (52)B his mind as the accident took place."It was the (53)D of my soon-to-born daughter,"Kevin replied."Then,I remembered I had two choices:I could choose to live or I could choose to die.I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared?"
"The doctors and nurses were great.They kept telling me I was going to be (54)A.But when they (55)D me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses,I got (56)C scared.In their eyes,l read‘He's a(57)B man.'I knew I needed to take action.When one nurse asked me shouting if I was (58)A to anything and waited for my reply,I took a deep breath and yelled,‘Gravity.'
Over their laughter,I told them,‘I'm choosing to live.Operate on me as if I am alive,not dead.'"
Kevin lived.I learned from him that every day we have a choice to live (59)D.Attitude is (60)C.

41A.negativeB.amusingC.positiveD.serious
42A.professorB.creatorC.operatorD.motivator
43A.happensB.disappearsC.entersD.shows
44A.winnerB.victimC.teacherD.adult
45A.hardB.enormousC.terribleD.easy
46A.choicesB.happinessC.hardshipD.goodness
47A.adaptB.reactC.leadD.turn
48A.bottomB.straightC.waitingD.limited
49A.exposedB.expectedC.evolvedD.involved
50A.takingB.fallingC.jumpingD.giving
51A.carriedB.arrestedC.releasedD.protected
52A.come withB.gone throughC.put forwardD.pushed into
53A.healthB.safetyC.educationD.growth
54A.fineB.wealthyC.hurtD.lost
55A.supportedB.refusedC.persuadedD.wheeled
56A.rarelyB.hardlyC.reallyD.similarly
57A.handsomeB.deadC.strongD.energetic
58A.allergicB.addictedC.devotedD.hopeful
59A.simplyB.accidentallyC.carefullyD.fully
60A.somethingB.anythingC.everythingD.nothing
10.Do you have a spare room in your house?Do you like to share your driveway in front of your garage with others?(36)B Many people are benefiting from this new business of renting.
Perhaps the best-known example of a company in this field is Airbnb-an American web business which allows you to rent out your spare room to holidaymakers.It says it operates in34,000cities and it has 800,000listings of rooms and apartments.(37)A
A British company is doing something with parking spaces.JustPark's founder,Anthony Eskinazi,says,"when I had the original idea.I spotted a driveway close to a spots stadium.It would have been so convenient if I could have just parked in that driveway rather than in a commercial car park."(38)DAround 20,000people have advertised their spaces on the website,and he says around half a million drivers use it.
(39)EThey are people who run things like traditional hotels and commercial car parks.They are afraid of ending up losing money.
(40)C Regulations for these new businesses are unclear.How will renting out your driveway affect your neighbour?Because this is a new business world,those rules aren't there yet.
A.They seem to have occupied the majority of the market.
B.Both of these can help you make money.
C.And there is another problem.
D.And his great idea has proved a success.
E.But the new business of renting has its competitors.
F.There are many ways to earn money.
G.A commercial car park is inconvenient.

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