完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
Pooja Dhingra should have been a lawyer. But while studying at university in Mumbai, she decided to quit her major and to something more .
Remembering helping her mother in the during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. So she her parents to let her go to study cooking.
One day, her friends took her to one of the best macaron(杏仁小圆饼)shops in Paris.
After just one , Ms Dhingra determined that when she to Mumbai she would open her own macaron store, the first of its kind in India. Upon graduation, she started macarons in her parents' kitchen, but it was a complete .The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it to make delicious cakes. After 60 failed ,she finally got an ideal recipe. being both young and female meant she faced additional ."The biggest problem was to get people to take you .”she tells us. "For example, I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me. " However, she opened her first shop in 2010. To sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaron was, Ms Dhingra _ free samples to customers. The cakes were immediately popular, and sales soon took off thanks to the evaluation. .
Now, Ms Dhingra is the of three busy macaron shops. She has planned to her business across the country. One newspaper article called her " the macaron queen of India" .
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A.design |
B.literature |
C.law |
D.medicine |
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A.creative |
B.confident |
C.enthusiastic |
D.effective |
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A.bedroom |
B.study |
C.kitchen |
D.basement |
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A.convinced |
B.warned |
C.forgave |
D.reminded |
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A.drink |
B.effort |
C.breath |
D.bite |
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A.replied |
B.traveled |
C.walked |
D.returned |
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A.eating |
B.making |
C.bringing |
D.selling |
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A.comfort |
B.honor |
C.failure |
D.success |
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A.appealing |
B.difficult |
C.smooth |
D.available . |
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A.competences |
B.assumptions |
C.statements |
D.attempts |
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A.Yet |
B.Still |
C.Even |
D.Just |
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A.praises |
B.sacrifices |
C.tasks |
D.challenges |
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A.slightly |
B.pleasantly |
C.seriously |
D.peacefully |
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A.if' |
B.after |
C.though |
D.unless |
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A.suddenly |
B.eventually |
C.eagerly |
D.unwillingly |
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A.check |
B.promote |
C.ban |
D.decrease |
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A.put away |
B.smoothed away |
C.cleared away |
D.gave away |
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A.negative |
B.positive |
C.plain |
D.critical |
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A.customer |
B.inventor |
C.owner |
D.driver |
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A.expand |
B.sell |
C.abandon |
D.Protect |
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