問題詳情
四、閱讀測驗 Starbucks is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. The company was founded in Seattle,Washington in 1971; it operates more than 23,000 locations worldwide, including 12,937 in the United States, 2,118in China, 1,430 in Canada, 1,158 in Japan and 869 in the United Kingdom. Starbucks locations serve hot and cold drinks, whole-bean coffee, microground instant coffee known as VIA,espresso, caffe latte, full- and loose-leaf teas including Teavana tea products, Evolution Fresh juices, Frappuccinobeverages, pastries, and snacks. Some offerings (including their Pumpkin Spice Latte) are seasonal or specific to thelocality of the store. The first Starbucks store was opened in Seattle, Washington, on March 30, 1971, by three partners, JerryBaldwin, Zev Siegl, and Gordon Bowker, who first met while they were students at the University of San Francisco.They were inspired to sell high-quality coffee beans and equipment by a coffee roasting entrepreneur Alfred Peetafter he taught them his style of roasting beans. Why did the company choose the name Starbuck? Bowker recalledthat Terry Heckler, with whom Bowker owned an advertising agency, thought words beginning with "st" werepowerful. Then the founders brainstormed a list of words beginning with "st". Someone pulled out an old miningmap of the Cascade Range and saw a mining town named "Starbo", which immediately reminded Bowker of"Starbuck," the name of the chief mate in the novel Moby-Dick. It was in the early 1980s that Starbucks first became profitable, and despite an initial economic downturn withits expansion into the Midwest and British Columbia in the late 1980s, the company experienced revitalizedprosperity with its entry into California in the early 1990s. The first Starbucks store outside North America wasopened in Tokyo in 1996. Now overseas properties constitute nearly one third of its stores. The company has beengrowing fast since the mid-1980s. Today, Starbucks operates 23,768 locations in the world.
【題組】46. What is the passage mainly about?
(A) Alfred Peet’s style of roasting coffee beans.
(B) How customers comment on Starbucks’ products.
(C) The founding and expansion of the Starbucks chain.
(D) Starbucks’ support of environmental causes, such as recycling.
參考答案
答案：C
難度：簡單0.89
統計：A(1),B(6),C(89),D(2),E(0)