[简答题] In 1999, John Wood, then 35 and Microsoft’’s No. 2 in China, journeyed to Nepal with some 3,000 books in tow-not to read on vacation but to give to a school that could not afford any. The project was a joint venture between Wood and Dinesh Prasad Shrestha, a rural-aid worker in Kathmandu whom the IT executive had met earlier. It planted an idea. "We should get serious about this," Shrestha told Wood. "We should be more organized and do this properly. " The rest of Room to Read’’s story may not yet be a corporate legend, but "the business" , as Wood calls it, has certainly broken plenty of new ground since he quit his job and launched a new career. " Microsoft didn’’t need me," he explains, " the children of Nepal did." In just five years, the charity has built more than 100 schools, assembled some 1,000 libraries, stocked them with almost half a million new books, put more than 500 girls on long-term scholarships, and opened 45 computer and language rooms. And not just in Nepa