第七期 2008年6月真题 文章(5/6)-英语听力

[00:00.00]Passage Three [00:03.76]In February last year, my wife lost her job. [00:09.58]Just as suddenly, the owner of the greenhouse where I worked as manager died of a heart attack. [00:17.00]His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. [00:24.17]Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want-ads each day. [00:31.32]Then one morning, as I was hanging a "Going Out of Business" sign at the greenhouse, [00:37.86]the door opened and in walked a customer. [00:41.90]She was an office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of town. [00:49.28]She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas and offices. [00:54.95]"I don't know anything about plants," she said. [00:58.88]"I'm sure in a few weeks they'll all be dead." [01:02.42]While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. [01:08.91]Perhaps as many as a dozen firms have recently opened offices in the new office park, [01:15.64]and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way. [01:21.37]That afternoon, I drove out to the office park. [01:26.25]By six o'clock that evening, I had signed contracts with seven companies [01:32.27]to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them. [01:37.81]Within a week, I had worked out an agreement to lease the greenhouse from the owner's family. [01:45.15]Business is now increasing rapidly.And one day,we hope to be the proud owners of the greenhouse.