Zhao Yuan is 50, and she was born in the Jianghua Yao autonomous county in Hunan province. She sells agricultural product on the Internet.

Before suffering from arthritis(关节炎), Zhao was a dance teacher. Arthritis is a condition that causes permanent damage to the joints, especially the fingers, wrists, feet and ankles. Finally she had to give up teaching and started to make a living in business.

She opened a hotel in her hometown and used some of the money she made to help pay for the school and college fees of 13 poor students. In 2017, she set up an offline sales platform called Sanhao Xiansheng which mainly sold goods produced by her disabled friends. Due to COVID-19, however, Sanhao Xiansheng didn’t make money, so Zhao turned to online sales instead. She became a livestream(直播) host on social media platforms, promoting goods like brown sugar, sweet potato flour and honey that her friends made, by telling stories about them.

Zhao said that she always checks the quality of the products herself before promoting them. “Before selling anything, I inspect the products. Otherwise, I wouldn’t be able to ensure they’re fit to sell,” she said. Although traveling is not convenient for her, Zhao has been all over Hunan checking produce and teaching the producers how they can sell online. In 2020, she sold 50,000 kilograms of oranges and other agricultural produce, with sales topping 2 million yuan.

Zhao said that everything she sells comes from 55 agricultural centers around the province run by the disabled, which employ more than 2,000 people. She has also hired 57 hosts, all of whom are disabled.

With her career flourishing, Zhao has set up the Hunan Sanhao Xiansheng Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co. “We are planning to train another 1,000 hosts,” she said, adding that she hopes that they will also be able to experience their personal and social value through work, just the way she did.

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1. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “flourishing” in the last paragraph?（词义猜测）

A    Developing quickly.

B    Moving slowly.

C    Declining quietly.

D    Changing frequently.