問題詳情
請依下文回答第 41 題至第 45 題： Starbucks serves over 25 million customers a week in 15,000 stores in 44 countries around the world. 41 Sohow did a company currently worth $5 billion get started? Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice, as it was originally known, roasted its first coffee beans in 1971. This tiny coffeehouse in Seattle, named after a character in the novel Moby Dick, was the vision of three men—Baldwin, Siegel, andBowker—who cared passionately about fine coffee and tea. 42 A decade later, their fourth store in Seattleopened. Meanwhile, in New York, Howard Schultz, a businessman specializing in kitchen equipment, noticed that a smallcompany in Seattle was ordering a large number of a special type of coffeemaker. 43 As soon as he saw theStarbucks store, he knew that he wanted to be a part of it. The three founding members weren't initially very eager, buta persistent Schultz was eventually hired to be the head of Starbucks marketing in 1982. 44 Within the nextten years, Schultz had already opened 150 new stores and had bought the company! There are now stores all overEurope, Asia, and the Middle East. 45
【題組】41
(A)These are just a few of the many specialty coffees on offer at Starbucks.
(B)But global success comes at a price.
(C)And this figure is increasing rapidly.
(D)Many people feel that big corporations, even responsible ones, are never a good thing.
參考答案
答案：C
難度：適中0.568182
統計：A(14),B(14),C(50),D(10),E(0)