Almost every kid in this country has ever eaten Hershey chocolate. But do you know that the Hershey chocolate factory is more than one hundred years old? And do you know that the father of Hershey Chocolate, Milton Hershey, had many failures in business before he started his famous company?

Milton Hershey grew up in Pennsylvania. Before he became interested in making chocolate, he worked as a printer for a small newspaper at first, and then decided that printing was not the right job for him.

Then he worked at a candy factory in Lancaster. After working a few years there, he decided to open his own little candy business near Philadelphia. His first business failed because it was not making money. After that, he went to Denver to learn how to make caramels(焦糖). He took his new skills back to New York and worked selling candies on the street. But his second business also failed.

Finally, Milton Hershey moved back to Pennsylvania where he grew up. He then experimented with all sorts of different candies and chocolate. By 1893 he was selling a million dollars worth of caramel candy each year. Since his chocolate-flavored(巧克力味的) caramels were the best selling, he decided to make chocolate himself.

By experimenting, Milton Hershey discovered how to make delicious chocolate. The area where he lived had a large and easy supply of milk and sugar, which helped him succeed in his chocolate business. In 1903, Milton Hershey built a huge chocolate factory and a town to go with it.

Today, the town of Hershey is still the home of the factory that Milton Hershey built. And if you ever visit, you can smell delicious chocolate smells just driving through the town.

The factory is not so hard to find, Just travel down Cocoa Avenue until you get to East Chocolate Avenue. Turn right at the traffic lights and just follow your nose.

1.Who is the father of Hershey Chocolate?

2.Where did he grow up?

3.Why did he go to Denver?

4.Why did he decide to make chocolate himself?

5.Is the town of Hershey still the home of the factory that Milton Hershey built?

There was a lovely vegetable patch (菜园). A large tree grew there. Both the patch and the tree gave the place a wonderful look, and they were the pride(骄傲) of the gardener. But no one know that the vegetables and the tree couldn’t stand (忍受) each other. The vegetables hated the tree’s shadow (阴影) , because it left them only just enough light to live. The tree, on the other hand, hated the vegetables because they drank nearly all the water, leaving him just enough to live.

Their problem became so serious that the vegetables decided to use up all the water in the ground so that the tree would die. The tree answered back by not protecting the vegetables from the hot sun, so they began to dry up. Soon the vegetables were really weak, and the tree was drying up.

The gardener wondered why and stopped watering them. When he did that, both the tree and the vegetables found that it was better to help each other. They learned how to live in harmony with those around them. So they decided to work together, using both the shade and the water to grow well. After seeing how well they were doing, the gardener gave the best care to the vegetable patch, watering and fertilizing (施肥) it better than any other patch for miles around.

1.Why didn’t the vegetables and the tree get on well with each other?

A. Because the vegetables wanted more light.

B. Because the tree drank almost all the water.

C. Because the vegetables weren’t the pride of the gardener.

D. Because the vegetables didn’t look as wonderful as tree.

2.From the passage we know ______.

A. The vegetables were sorry to see the tree drying up.

B. The gardener was very angry with the vegetables and the tree.

C. The gardener didn’t know what was happening in the patch at first.

D. The tree didn’t know how important the sun was to vegetables.

3.The underlined phrase “in harmony” means “______” in the Chinese.

A. 长久地 B. 小心地

C. 有效地 D. 和谐地

4.The passage is mainly about _______.

A. why the sunlight and water were very important

B. how the gardener took care of his vegetable patch

C. why the gardener was proud of his vegetable patch

D. what happened between the vegetables and the tree

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