首页
登录
职称英语
We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintner
We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintner
游客
2025-01-01
20
管理
问题
We live in southern California growing grapes, a first generation of vintners, our home adjacent to the vineyards and the winery. It’s a very pretty place, and in order to earn the money to realize our dream of making wine, we worked for many years in a business that demanded several household moves, an incredible amount of risk-taking and long absences from my husband. When it was time, we traded in our old life, cinched up our belts and began the creation of the winery.
We make small amounts of premium wine, and our lives are dictated by the rhythm of nature and file demands of the loving vines. The vines start sprouting tiny green tendrils in March and April, and the baby grapes begin to form in miniature, so perfect that they can be dipped in gold to form jewelry. The grapes swell and ripen in early fall, and when their sugar content is at the right level, they are harvested carefully by hand and crushed in small lots. The wine is fermented and tended until it is ready to be bottled. The vines shed their leaves and are pruned and made ready for the
dormant
months and the next vintage.
It sounds nice, doesn’t it? Living in the country, our days spent in the ancient routine of the vineyard, knowing that the course of our lives as vintners was choreographed long age and that if we practiced diligently, our wine would be good and we would be successful. From the start we knew there was a price for the privilege of becoming a wine-aking family, connected to the land and the caprices of nature.
We work hard at something we love, we are slow to panic over the daily emergencies. We are nimble at solving problems as they arise. Some hazards to completing a successful vintage are expected: rain just before harvesting can cause mold; electricity unexpectedly interrupted during the cold fermentation of white wine can damage it; a delayed payment from a major client when the money is needed.
There are outside influences that disrupt production and take patience, good will and perseverance. For example, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms regulates every facet of the wine business. A winery’s records are audited as often as two or three times a year and every label—newly written for each year’s vintage—must be approved.
But the greatest threat to the winery, and one that almost made us lose heart, came out of a lawyer’s imagination. Our little winery was served notice that we were named in a lawsuit accusing us of endangering the public health by using lead foils on our bottles (it was the only material used until recently) "without warning consumers of a possible risk. " There it was, out" winery’s name listed with the industry’s giants.
I must have asked a hundred times: "Who gets the money if the lawsuit is successful?" The answer was, and I never was able to assimilate it, the plaintiffs and their lawyers who filed the suit! Since the lawsuit was brought on behalf of consumers, it seemed to me that consumers must get something if it was proved that a lead foil was dangerous to them. We were told one of the two consumer claimants was an employee of the firm filing the suit!
There are attorneys who focus their careers on lawsuits like this. It is an immense danger to the small businessman. Cash reserves can be used up in the blink of an eye when in the company of lawyers. As long as it’s possible for anyone to sue anybody for anything, we are all in danger. As long as the legal profession allows members to practice law dishonorably and lawyers are congratulated for winning big money in this way, we’ll all be plagued with a corruptible justice system. [br] According to the author, the life of vintners is most controlled by
选项
A、the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
B、unexpected changes in temperature.
C、the sugar content of the grapes.
D、the tempo of the seasons.
答案
D
解析
细节题。第二段提到“our lives are dictated by the rhythm of nature”(大自然的节奏(变动决定我们的生活),[D]“大自然的节奏”其实就是“自然规律”,符合题意。[A]是外界干扰因素;[B]“意外的天气变化”不起决定性作用;[C]“葡萄的含糖量”决定葡萄是否成熟。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3894042.html
相关试题推荐
ThestateofCaliforniaison______.A、theAtlanticCoastB、theGulfofMexicoC
Howtoliveto100Agrowingbodyofresearchsugg
TheSiliconValleyissituatedin______.A、CaliforniaB、NewMexicoC、FloridaD、A
[originaltext]FightingflaredyesterdayinnorthernandsouthernBosnia,pit
[originaltext]FightingflaredyesterdayinnorthernandsouthernBosnia,pit
ThemostpopulousstateintheU.S.is______.A、NewYorkB、CaliforniaC、TexasD、
WeliveinsouthernCaliforniagrowinggrapes,afirstgenerationofvintner
WeliveinsouthernCaliforniagrowinggrapes,afirstgenerationofvintner
Parentsoftheapproximately200,000home-schooledchildreninCaliforniaare
Parentsoftheapproximately200,000home-schooledchildreninCaliforniaare
随机试题
ThefollowingisapartoftheGuideforatransitsystem:Metro.Afterreading
[originaltext]Americansliketolaughandmakejokes,especiallypractical
(2019年真题)下列违反证券交易的法律责任的说法,错误的是()。A.证券公司经
左图为给定的多面体,从任一角度观看,下面哪项不可能是该多面体的视图? A.如上
对于经济尚未稳定而且是初次贷款购房的人来说,一般采用等额本金还款法。()
案例一: 一般资料:求助者,女性,50岁,工人。 案例介绍:两个月前,求助者
A.叶酸拮抗剂 B.苯海拉明 C.雌孕激素 D.沙利度胺 E.氮芥类可引
A公司为上市公司,其公司的β系数是2,当前市场组合的收益率E(rm)=8%,国债
鉴别急、慢性肾衰竭最重要的检查指标是A.贫血 B.尿素氮 C.血肌酐 D.
可选择放射性核素治疗的疾病是( )。A.肾上腺皮质功能减退症 B.原发性甲状
最新回复
(
0
)