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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, fumiture,
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 nowers 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 rnany 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 pmduced. 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 difftculties. Heinricher had rlo 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.
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.
B. Productive and flexible
C. Useful and earth-friendly
D. Strong and profitable
B. able to be raised difficultly
C. able to be shaped easily
D. able to be recycled conveniently
B. Heinricher"s detennimtion helped her to succeed in her work.
C. Heinricher struggled to prevent bamboo from disappearing.
D. Heinricher finally succeeded in realizing her childhood dream.
答案
核心考点
举一反三
few hours or even for 1 .
My wife and I 2 a short train ride on an old train. It was 3 of her birthday plan. I was expecting to
meet someone new who would 4 at our table. That was to be my 5 for that day.
We weren"t seated for two minutes 6 I heard, "Would you mind if I 7 you?" I replied, " 8 . I was
expecting you!"
He was in his early sixties and 9 introduced himself. But for the following 45 minutes, he never stopped
10 loudly. If there was a pause in the conversation, it was because 11 on the train was giving us some
backgroud information about the old train. 12 , this gentleman kept speaking to us about himself. Some things
he said were very interesting, but most was a complaint about his experience as a 13 and different types of
law. He never asked 14 of us what we did.
So, if 15 did send him, what was the message this time?
He needed 16 and I needed to be reminded how important it was to listen to pelple, 17 for a few seconds,
a few hours or for a lifetime. Perhaps I was sent to him. Maybe he was 18 to God to meet someone who 19 .
God gave us two ears and one mouth, because we need to listen 20 as much as we speak.
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| Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together. However, I was not thinking about the golden chain when I had to help people who 1 their way and parked in front of my house. I was growmg tired of helping so many people. Almost every 2 I was awaken during a sound night"s sleep and had to 3 someone out. Many times I was 4 by some penniless motorists who did not even thank me for the helps that they received and some even complained that I could have done 5 . One day, a young man with a week-old beard climbed out of a 6 automobile. He had no money and no food.He asked if I could give him some 7 , offer him gasoline and a meal. I told him that if he wanted to work for me, he could cut the grass, but 8 the work wasn"t necessary. Though sweaty and hungry, he worked hard. After working all day, he sat 9 to cool himself. I thanked him for his work and gave him the money he 10 . I then offered him some 11 money for a task particularly well done, but he shook his head, 12 . I never saw him again. He probably thinks I helped him out that day, but that is not 13 it was. I didn"t help him. He helped me to 14 people again to repay their trust in me. He helped me to once again want to do something for those who are 15 . I wish I could thank him for 16 some of my belief in the basic 17 of others and for giving me back a little of the 18 I had lost. Because of him, I once again felt part of a golden chain of kindness that 19 us to others. I may have fed his body that day, but he fed my 20 . | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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