Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words(在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當?shù)脑~,使其內(nèi)容通順,每空格限填一詞,首字母已給):(共7分)
Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, loved books. Like many lovers of books, they s___1___ walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.
In order to r___2___ their wish, they started by talking to bookstore owners and researching book business. One figure caught Mary’s attention: She had read somewhere that about 20 percent of books sold were mysteries (推理小說), and many buyers of mysteries s___3___ more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard themselves were mystery readers and had a big collection of such books.
On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Cafe near their home. With three children in college, it was i___4___ for the couple to spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the $100,000 cost, they used some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.
In order to attract c___5__, Mary always had new ways. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered presents to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited many writers to discuss their stories with the buyers to let them understand the stories b___6___. Now after paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $34,000.
“The job we love may not go hand in hand with lots of money,” says Richard. “We do this to give an e___7_ life to ourselves. This is not about making a lot of money. What matters is that we gain happiness from it.”
Answer the questions (根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答下列問題): (共6分)
The Green Belt Movement is a community (社區(qū)) group in Kenya. It aims to help protect the environment, mainly through planting trees.
The Green Belt Movement was started in 1977 by Wangari Maathai. When Wangari started the Green Belt Movement, she thought much about both people and the environment. She thought that if people grew the trees themselves, it would help them to understand the environment and develop their local cultures.
Today, the Green Belt Movement works like this. Members from the Movement go to communities to talk about tree planting and starting nurseries (苗圃). If the local people are interested, they can join the Movement as a group. When they join, they receive a lot of information about how to prepare the soil (土壤), and collect and grow seeds. When the people know what to do, they can collect seeds, plant them into seedlings (幼苗). When the seedlings are big enough, they will be planted on farms. The Green Belt Movement pays the nursery money for each seedling that is still alive after three months.
The Green Belt Movement now has over 6,000 community nurseries in Kenya, and many more in other African countries. Over the last 30 years, it has planted more than 30 million trees in parks and on farms.
The Green Belt Movement also runs programs to help people start gardens and grow plants that are local to their area. This means that many communities can now take care of almost all their own food needs, and they can often make extra income (額外的收入) as well.
In 2004, Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize. Giving the prize to Wangari showed that peace doesn’t just mean stopping wars. It can also mean making the world a better place to live in.
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1. What does the Green Belt Movement aim to do?
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2. When was the Green Belt Movement started?
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3. Does the Green Belt Movement open schools to teach people tree planting?
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4. What can the nurseries get if the seedlings are still alive after three months?
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5. How can many communities take care of their own food needs now?
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6. What do you think of the Green Belt Movement?
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