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 sevenacre farm.
     Heinricher started BooShoot 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 massproduce 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 multimilliondollar company, working on species from all over
the world and selling them to wholesalers(批发商). "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. Fragile and affordable.
B. Productive and flexible.
C. Useful and earthfriendly.
D. Strong and profitable.

3. 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

4. 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.

完成句子
阅读下列各小题,根据每句后的汉语提示,用句末括号内的英语单词完成句子.

1. A number of new machines were installed in the factory, thus ____________________in production.
    (result)
工厂安装了大量的新机器,因而使得产量增加.
2. Who do you think ____________________my homework? (hand)
你认为是谁帮我交了作业了呢?
3. The living room of this house is ____________________ of the bedroom, which suits the family pretty well. (length)
这个房子的起居室是卧室长度的两倍,这很合家庭成员的意.
 4. Victor apologized for his ____________________ inform me of the change in the plan beforehand.
     (able)
维克多为他没能提前通知我计划有变而道歉.
5. It is generally believed that the more fertile a piece of field is, ____________________ grain it produces. (output)
人们普遍认为土地越肥沃,谷物的产量就越高.
6. How often I have regretted ____________________! (advice)
我常常后悔没听他的建议!
7. ____________________, they set out to break the record for crossChannel swimming. (equip)
装备好了之后,他们就出发去打破游泳横渡英吉利海峡的纪录了.
8. ____________________ I am of opera, I'd rather not sit through the Ring of the Nibelungs cycle this weekend. (though)
尽管我喜欢歌剧,但这个周末我不想一直坐等《尼伯龙根的指环》的结束.
 9. People were perhaps more honest a long time ago when life was very different from ____________________. (be)
很久以前,生活与今天的样子大不相同,那个时候的人们可能更加诚实一些.
10. ____________________is to carry out all we have planned during the last month. (thing)
要做的最后一件事是在最后一个月里执行我们的全部计划.