Have you heard the saying“If you can't find it, build it”？Well，that’s what Maddie Bradshaw did. The 17-year-old girl is from Texas, USA. When Maddie was going to middle school and she couldn’t find fun magnets(粘貼畫) for her school locker(寄存柜), she decided to make one by herself. Her uncle gave her a bag of bottle caps，and Maddie went to work. She decorated(裝飾) a bottle cap with a picture of Albert Einstein and then put it on her locker. Her friends loved it and asked her to make some for them. Maddie said, “A kid knows what a kid likes.” She made a “ Happy Birthday ”one for her sister and other designs for her friends. Later she even took 50 to a local store. To her surprise, it sold all of them in less than two hours.

Maddie then had the idea to make the bottle caps into fun necklaces(項鏈). In 2010，she even decided to use $300 of her own money to start a company. She named it M3 Girl Designs. Her younger sister Margot and her mom help her in the company. Now it sells about 50,000 bottle cap necklaces each month. They can be found at different stores across the US, Canada and the UK.

Maddie has written a book about her experience. It is called You Can Start a Business, Too! . “ I want other kids to know that they can make their great ideas come to life. I’ve been so lucky and I want to share what I’ve learned,” she says.

1.The underlined word “ it ” refers to _______.

A. the school. B. the bottle cap

C. the school locker D. the picture of Albert Einstein

2.m the second paragraph, we can learn that Maddie’s cap necklaces are very ______.

A. expensive B. popular C. long D. strange

3.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Maddie got a bag of bottle caps from her father.

B. Maddie borrowed $300 from her mom to start a company

C. Maddie wrote the book You Can Start a Business, Too for kids

D. Maddie and her friends sold her 50 bottle caps in less than two hours.

4.Which can be the best title of the passage?

A. Maddie, a creative girl. B. How to make fun necklaces

C. A great book by a teenage girl. D. How to mke use of bottle caps.

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