Books are not Nadia Konyk's thing．Her mother, hoping to attract her, brings them home from the library, but Nadia rarely shows an interest．Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet．She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer．
Nadia checks her e-mail and reads careful through my yearbook com, a social networking site, reading messages or posting updates on her mood．She searches from music videos on youtube.com and logs onto gaiaonline.com, a role-playing site where members exchange identities as cartoon characters．But she spends most of her time on quizilla.com or fanfiction．net, reading and commenting on stories written by other users and based on books, television shows or movies．
Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia read books for a change．But at this point, Ms．Konyk said,“I'm just pleased that she reads something anyway．”
Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate(狂热的)debate about just what it means to read in the digital age．As teenagers' scores on standardized reading tests have declined, some argue that the hours spent surfing the Internet is the enemy of reading-reducing literacy, destroying attention spans and a valuable common culture that exists only through the reading of books．
But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount．The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of his leisure time watching television, to read and write．
Even talented book readers like Zachary Sims, 18, of Old Greenwich, Conn．, carve the ability to quickly find different points of view on a subject and talk with others online．Some children with dyslexia(诵读困难)or other learning difficulties, like Hunter Gaudet, 16, of Somers, Conn．, have found it far more comfortable to search and read online．
(1)
The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means ________．
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A．
Nadia prefers not to be a writer
B．
Nadia doesn't like to buy books
C．
Nadia treats reading books as a piece of cake
D．
Nadia shows no interest in reading books
(2)
To act as a character, Konyk will log onto ________．
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A．
gaiaonline.com
B．
youtube.com
C．
quizilla.com
D．
myyearbook.com
(3)
The example given in the last paragraph are used to prove ________．
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, 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 mass-produce 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 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?
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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?
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A．
Renewable and acceptable
B．
Productive and flexible．
C．
Useful and earth-friendly．
D．
Strong and profitable．
(3)
The underlined word“renewable”in Paragraph 6 probably means“________”．
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