【推荐2】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. entry          B. impressive          C. potential          D. conducting          E. affordable          F. meet G. heart          H. expand          I. denied          J. custom          K. entrepreneurial

Last spring, Karly Bierma, an 18-year-old girl from Canby High School (CHS) in Oregon, US, carried with her a spirit of go-for-it mentality. And it’s that spirit that led her down an unexpected,     1     road at a relatively young age.

Growing up on a 75-acre farm, Bierma knew from an early age that art was going to be part of her life. Along with doing chores, Bierma’s passion for art started to really ignite as a seventh-grader when the plain white walls of Ninety-One School called out to her for color and vibrancy.     2     the chance to create a mural on one of the walls initially, she ran home, made a full layout, got paint donated and organized a committee, then came back about a week later with a full plan and got a ‘yes’.

As Bierma grew as an artist, she realized that she wanted to share her passion and her creations with a larger audience. But how?

“I started selling my art in the beginning of high school at markets and coffee house shows, but I just didn’t see the     3     in people buying originals,” Bierma said, “That’s kind of where my idea for the stickers came from. I wanted to make it easy, convenient and     4     for people to buy my art.”

Ah, the stickers. It is here that Bierma was able to watch passion, art and reality     5    . The results have been     6     . In November 2019, through a website that would turn scans of her unique art into stickers, Bierma ordered her first set of     7     stickers. “It was $104 (about 728 yuan) for 150 stickers, and it was all my money,” she said.

Soon, she was selling her stickers in the hallways of CHS all day long. She also hit up five to 10 stores each weekend across Canby and other locales, just looking for a(n)     8     point into the retail market. She found some takers, but a store in Oregon City proved to be a doorway to a much bigger world for her creations.

In April 2020, a group of gift representatives saw Bierma’s stickers and those middlemen were able to     9     her line into stores throughout the northwest, and in 2020, she had sales of more than 17,000 stickers.

“That’s when I was forced to realize that this was a business. I had to figure out invoicing, credit cards, all that fun stuff,” she said. “I had become a full-on artist who had to learn to do business. It’s fun to see a design that’s close to my     10     and discover that what I love is what other people love, too.”

【推荐3】Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

If the package looks pretty, people will buy just about anything. So says an advertising executive in New York, and he has proved his point by selling boxes of rubbish for the price of an expensive bottle of wine.
Justin Gignac, 26, has sold almost 900     1    presented plastic boxes of rubbish from the street of Big Apple at between ＄50 and ＄100 each. Buyers from 19 countries have paid for the souvenirs(纪念品). The idea has been so successful that he is thinking of promoting it around the world.
It all began when Mr. Gignac was at a summer workshop, “We had a discussion about the importance of     2    ,” he recalls. “Someone said packaging was unimportant. I disagreed. The only way to prove it was by selling something nobody would ever want.”
He searches the streets of Manhattan and typical     3    include broken glass, subway tickets, Starbucks cups and used     4    forks. “Special editions” are offered at a high price. He charged ＄100 for rubbish from the opening day of the New York Yankees’ stadium.
Mr Gignac denies     5    his customers for fools: “They know what they’re getting. They appreciate the fact that they’re taking something nobody would want and finding beauty in it.”
Some     6    customers include people who used to live in the city and want a down-to-earth souvenir. He claims he has even sold to art collectors.
Realizing that the concept appears to be a real money-maker, Mr Gignac has     7    a company and is employing his girlfriend as vice president. He     8    to discuss his profit margins: “It’s actually quite a lot of effort putting them together—but yes, garbage is free.”
Mr Gignac is considering more varieties of souvenirs. He maintains that he has signed     9    with people interested in similar projects from as far as Berlin and London.