Twelve-year-old Roth becomes a friend of Dr．Banting and his assistant, Mr．Best, who are in search of a cure for diabetes(糖尿病)．She finds herself torn between her sympathy for the animals being experimented on and her friendship with Banting and Best．
Book 2 George Washington Carver
written by Elizabeth Macleod
Meet the “Peanut(花生)Specialist”, George Washington Carver, the inventor and professor who made over 325 products out of peanuts．Through his agricultural research, he also greatly improved the lives of countless black farmers in the southern United States．See also Macleod's Albert Einstein：A Life of Genius．
Book 3 The Inuit Thought of It：Amazing Arctic Innovations
written by Alootook Ipellie & David MacDonald
Explore more than 40 ideas necessary to Inuit survival．From ideas familiar to us today to inventive concepts that shaped their lives, celebrate the creativity of a remarkably intelligent people．Also see other books; The Chinese Thought of It by Tingxing Ye and A Native American Thought of It by Rocky Landon and David MacDonald．
Book 4 Made in Canada：101 Amazing Achievements
written by Bev Spencer
What things do we use daily that have a Canadian connection? Here are 101 common things that were invented in Canada or by a Canadian, including the Blackberry, alkaline(碱性)batteries and the Blue Box recycling program．
Book 5 Newtonand the Time Machine
written by Michael McGowan
Ten-year-old boy Newton has invented a time machine to see dinosaurs up close．But it disappears on a test run with his two huge friends, King Herbert and Queen Certrude, can he save them before time runs out?
(1)
Which of the following best describes Roth's feeling in Book 1?
[ ]
A．
Painful．
B．
Curious．
C．
Frightened．
D．
Disappointed．
(2)
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
[ ]
A．
Animals are mentioned in Book 1 and Book 5．
B．
Book 3 introduces 40 inventive concepts．
C．
Alkaline batteries were invented by Dr．Banting．
D．
George Washington Carver was a black farmer in the US．
(3)
In Book 5, King Herbert and Queen Gertrude are ________．
[ ]
A．
Newton's human friends
B．
the names of the time machine
C．
two dinosaurs
D．
the inventions of the time machine
(4)
If you are interested in native Americans, you may read the book by ________．
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?
[ ]
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．
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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