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Passage Three
段落三
In February last year, my wife lost her job. Just as suddenly, the owner of the greenhouse where I worked as manager died of a heart attack.
去年2月份，我妻子丟掉了工作。我單位的溫室經理人也因突發心臟病而去世。
His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want-ads each day.
他的家人宣布他們將關閉企業，因為家族中沒人想要再運營它。所有的事情看起來都很讓人沮喪。我和妻子每天都在看招聘廣告。
Then one morning, as I was hanging out “Going Out of Business” sign at the greenhouse, the door opened and in walked a customer.
一天早上當我在溫室上掛出“歇業”的牌子時，門打開并走進來一個客人。
She was an office manager whose company has just moved into the new office park on the edge of town. She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas and offices.
她是一個辦公室經理，她的公司剛剛遷到郊區，她想在她的接待處和辦公室放一些盆栽。
“I don't know anything about plants,” she said. “I'm sure in a few weeks they'll all be dead.”
她說“我一點都不懂得盆栽，相信沒幾個周他們就會死”。
While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing.
在幫她選擇盆栽的時候，我的頭腦在飛速的轉著。
Perhaps as many as a dozen firms had recently opened offices in the new office park, and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way.
最近可能有多達十幾家公司都在辦公區開設了辦事處，并且那里還有數百英畝的區域正在進行建設。
That afternoon, I drove out to the office park. By six o'clock that evening I had signed contracts with seven companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them.
那個下午，我開車來到辦公區。到晚上6點的時候，已經有7家公司和我簽訂了盆栽租借的合同并且支付了保養費。
Within a week, I had worked out an agreement to lease the greenhouse from the owner's family.
一周之內，我起草了一份從雇主家里協議租賃溫室的合同。
Business is now increasing rapidly. And one day, we hope to be the proud owners of the greenhouse.
事業正在迅速的增長，希望有一天我能成為溫室驕傲的擁有者。
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
基于你聽到的對話回答問題32至35。
Question 32. What do we learn about the greenhouse?
問題32. 我們了解到關于溫室的什么信息？
Question 33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning?
問題33. 當有顧客早晨進來時，作者在做什么？
Question 34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager?
問題34. 當服務于辦公室經理的時候，作者想到了什么？
Question 35. What was the speaker's hope for the future?
問題35. 作者希望未來是怎樣的？
