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第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c和d）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 a when paul was a boy growing up in utah，he happened to live near a copper smelter（炼铜厂），and the chemicals that poured out had made a wasteland out of what used to he a beautiful forest. one day a young visitor looked at this wasteland and called it an awful area. paul knocked him down. from then on，something happened inside him. years later paul was back in the area，and he went to the smelter office. he asked if they had any plans or if they would let him try to bring the trees back. the answer from that big industry was“no”. paul then went to college to study the science of plants. unfortunately，his teachers said there weren't any birds or squirrels to spread the seeds. it would be a waste of his life to try to do it. everyone knew that，he was told. even if he was knowledgeable as he had expected，he wouldn’t get his idea accepted． paul later got married and had some kids. but his dream would not die. and then one night he did what he could with what he had. as samuel johnson wrote，“it is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote. attainable good is often ignored by minds busied in wide ranges.”under the cover of darkness，he went secretly into the wasteland and started planting.
