第二部分阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分,满分40分)
A
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.
56. 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.
57. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?
A. Renewable and acceptable                             B. Productive and flexible.
C. Useful and earth-friendly.                                 D. Strong and profitable.
58. 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
59. 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.


第三部分阅读理解 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
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.
56. 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.
57. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?
A. Renewable and acceptable                             B. Productive and flexible.
C. Useful and earth-friendly.                                 D. Strong and profitable.
58. 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
59. 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.

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.
56. 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.
57. What does Heinricher think of bamboo?
A. Renewable and acceptable                                               B. Productive and flexible.
C. Useful and earth-friendly.                                  D. Strong and profitable.
58. 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
59. 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.

One day I decided to quit.I quitted my job, my relationship, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the      to have one last talk with God. "Can you give me one good    not to quit?" His answer surprised me.

   "Look around. Do you see the fern(蕨类植物) and the bamboo? When I planted their seeds, I took good care of them.The fern quickly grew from the earth.      nothing came from the bamboo seed. During the following three years, the fern grew more plentiful. And     , nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. Then in the fifth year a       sprout(新芽) emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was      small and insignificant. But just 6 months later the bamboo      to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing     . Those roots made it strong and gave it     it needed to survive. I wouldn’t give any of my creations a challenge it could not     .”

He said to me .”All this time you have been struggling , you have ___been growing roots . I would not quit on the bamboo.____will I ever quit on you .Don’t ____yourself with others .The bamboo had a different ____from the fern .Yet they both make the forest beautiful .Your time will ___ .You will rise high!”

   "How high should I rise?" I asked.

   "How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked     

   "As high as it can?" I     .

   "Yes," He said. "Give me glory      rising as high as you can."

   I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope it can help you see that God will never    on you. Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness. Bad days give you    . Both are necessary to life.

1.A. farm            B.heaven             C.bushes          D.woods

2.A. reason   B. sense             C.response  D.explanation

3.A. Even            B. Instead            C.Yet        D.Rather

4.A. again           B. always             C.ever     D.often

5.A. thin              B. tiny         C.weak             D.short

6.A. largely    B. entirely         C.seemingly   D.probably

7.A. raised          B. provided    C.rose        D.produced

8.A. fruits           B. leaves             C.seeds             D.  roots

9.A. which          B. where             C.how       D.what

10.A. present         B. explore         C.handle           D .offer

11.A. particularly B. actually             C.merely           D. obviously

12.A. Either        B. So               C.Neither           D. As

13.A. furnish B. associate   C.  connect           D. compare

14.A. purpose        B. recognition        C.  credit           D. possibility

15.A. go              B. come               C. get        D. leave

16.A. in nature      B. in exchange       C. in respect    D. in turn

17.A.questioned    B. required       C. requested         D. remarked

18.A. from          B. with        C. by           D. for

19.A. cut up       B. give up       C. break up           D. pick up

20.A. experiences          B. strengths          C. awards       D. ambitions

 

One day I decided to quit.I quitted my job, my relationship, my spirituality. I wanted to quit my life.

I went to the   36   to have one last talk with God. "Can you give me one good   37   not to quit?" His answer surprised me.

   "Look around. Do you see the fern(蕨类植物) and the bamboo? When I planted their seeds, I took good care of them.The fern quickly grew from the earth.   38   nothing came from the bamboo seed. During the following three years, the fern grew more plentiful. And   39  , nothing came from the bamboo seed. But I did not quit on the bamboo. Then in the fifth year a    40   sprout(新芽) emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was   41   small and insignificant. But just 6 months later the bamboo   42   to over 100 feet tall. It had spent the five years growing   43  . Those roots made it strong and gave it  44   it needed to survive. I wouldn’t give any of my creations a challenge it could not   45  .”

   He said to me. "All this time you have been struggling, you have   46   been growing roots. I would not quit on the bamboo.   47   will I ever quit on you. Don't   48   yourself with others. The bamboo had a different   49   from the fern. Yet they both make the forest beautiful. Your time will   50  . You will rise high! "

   "How high should I rise?" I asked.

   "How high will the bamboo rise?" He asked   51  

   "As high as it can?" I   52  .

   "Yes," He said. "Give me glory   53   rising as high as you can."

   I left the forest and bring back this story. I hope it can help you see that God will never   54 on you. Never regret a day in your life. Good days give you happiness. Bad days give you   55 . Both are necessary to life

1.A. farm                B.heaven               C.bushes          D.woods

2.A. reason            B. sense                C.response  D.explanation

3.A. Even                B. Instead             C.Yet        D.Rather

4.A. again               B. always              C.ever     D.often

5.A. thin                  B. tiny          C.weak             D.short

6.A. largely             B. entirely            C.seemingly   D.probably

7.A. raised              B. provided      C.rose        D.produced

8.A. fruits               B. leaves               C.seeds             D.  roots

9.A. which              B. where              C.how       D.what

10.A. present              B. explore           C.handle           D .offer

11.A. particularly     B. actually             C.merely           D. obviously

12.A. Either            B. So                C.Neither           D. As

13.A. furnish      B. associate    C.  connect           D. compare

14.A. purpose             B. recognition         C.  credit           D. possibility

15.A. go                  B. come       C. get        D. leave

16.A. in nature           B. in exchange        C. in respect    D. in turn

17.A. questioned     B. required           C. requested         D. remarked

18.A. from             B. with          C. by               D. for

19.A. cut up          B. give up             C. break up     D. pick up

20.A. experiences          B. strengths           C. awards           D. ambitions

 

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