The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in downtown Seattle, Washington, in the United States. It was a small coffee shop that roasted its own coffee beans. The coffee shop’s business did well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks stores in Seattle.

    Things really began to change for the company in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran(经营) Starbucks. Schultz worked in New York for a company that made kitchen equipment. He noticed that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he was curious about the company. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did, and he liked what he saw. He wanted to become part of the company. In 1982, the original(原先的) Starbucks owners hired Schultz as the company’s head of marketing.

    In 1983, Schultz travelled to Italy. The unique atmosphere of the coffee bars there caught his eye. To Schultz it seemed that Italians spent their daily lives in three places: home, work and coffee bars. His experience in Italy gave Schultz a new idea for Starbucks back in Seattle.

    Schultz created an atmosphere for Starbucks coffee shops that was comfortable, and customers everywhere seemed to like it. Between 1987 and 1992, Starbucks opened 150 new stores—and that was only the beginning. In fact, by the year 2000, three new Starbucks stores opened somewhere around the world every day!

Today, Starbucks has thousands of stores, including stores in twenty-six countries. One thing that helps make Starbucks succeed in cities outside the United States is the way Starbucks works with local stores and restaurants. By working together with a store already in the city, Starbucks gets an understanding of customers in the city. This understanding helps Starbucks open stores in the right locations for their customers.

11．What is the main idea of this passage?

　　A．How Starbucks has grown     

B．What Starbucks makes．

　　C．Starbucks’customers．       

D．How Starbucks makes its coffee．

12．Which is true about Starbucks’first ten years of business?

　　A．It grew very quickly．       

B．It was run by Howard Schultz．

　　C．It made special coffee makers．  

D．It was a small company．

13．Who is Howard Schultz?

　　A．A coffee seller in New York．

　　B．An Italian coffee maker

　　C．The man who changed the company．

　　D．One of the original owners of the company．

14. How many new Starbucks stores probably opened in the year 2000 around the world?

　A.Three.   B.About1095.   C.Two thousand.  D. Thirty-six.

15．What helps Starbucks succeed in places outside the United States?

　　A．Opening restaurants in just a few locations each year．

　　B．Only selling locally produced coffee beans．

　　C．working with other major coffee-making companies．

　　D．Learning about local customers．

 

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　　My name is Jim White. I live in America. I had a very  1 experience on Sunday. I saw a UFO in the daytime.   2 this spring, I went outside with my friend Bill  3 lived close to me. We were walking to a hill  4 I saw a large bright light dancing in the sky. I called Jim and asked him to look up. He kept  5 , “What is that?” “A UFO!” I shouted excitedly. I  6 it was round and red in the center.

　　After we looked at  7 for a moment, we found it seemed that it had wings, but it was still round. Bill would not believe me when I told him it  8 be a UFO. We shouted  9 it and we wished that it would land. We wanted to know  10 there was an alien in it. But soon it disappeared. I guessed we scared it off.

　　Do you believe me? It’s a true story.

 

A Clever Dog

　　It was Monday, Mrs. Smith's dog was hungry, but there was not any meat in the house.

　　Considering (考虑到……) that there was no better way, Mrs. Smith took a piece of paper, and wrote the following words on it: “Give my dog half a pound of meat. ”Then she gave the paper to her dog and said gently: “Take this to the butcher (卖肉者) and he' s going to give you your lunch today. ”

　　Holding the piece of paper in its mouth, the dog ran to the butcher's shop. It gave the paper to the butcher. The butcher read it carefully, recognized (认出) that it was really the lady' s handwriting and presently did as he was asked to. The dog was very happy, and ate the meat up immediately.

　　At midday (正午), the dog came to the shop again. It gave the butcher a piece of paper again. After reading it, he gave it half a pound of meat once more.

The next day, the dog came again exactly at midday. And as usual , it brought a piece of paper in the mouth. This time, the butcher did not take a look at the paper, and gave the dog its meat, for he had regarded the dog as one of his customers (顾客) .

　　But, the dog came again at four o'clock. And the same thing happened once again. To the butcher's more surprise, it came for the third time at six o'clock, and brought with it a third piece of paper. The butcher felt a bit puzzled. He said to himself, “This is a small dog. Why does Mrs. Smith give it so much meat to eat today?”

　　Looking at the piece of paper, he found that there were not any words on it!

1．Mrs. Smith treated her little dog quite ________ .

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2．It seemed that the dog knew well that the paper its master gave it ________ .

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3．The butcher did not give any meat to the dog ________ .

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A．when he found the words on the paper were not very clear

B．because he happened to have sold out all the meat in his shop

C．before he felt sure that the words were really written by Mrs. Smith

D．until he was paid enough by Mrs. Smith

3．From its experience, the dog found that ________ .

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A．only the paper with Mrs. Smith's words on it could bring it meat

B．the butcher would give the meat to it whenever he saw it

C．a piece of paper could bring him half a pound of meat

D．Mrs. Smith would pay for the meat it got from the butcher

5．At the end of the story, you'll find that ________ .

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A．the butcher found himself cheated by the smart animal

B．the dog was clever enough to write on the paper

C．the dog dared not go to the butcher's any more

D．the butcher was told not to give any meat to the dog