Question

The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products.

Foodzie was started by Mr LaFave and two of his friends, who met during college at Virginia Tech, where they would pay frequent visits to farmers markets. Last year, while living in North Carolina, one of them, Emily Olson, now 24, came up with one idea. She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn’t work in the business had no way to discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling to faraway customers, either.

   Mr LaFAve and the third co-founder, Nik Bauman, both 25, worked in corporate sales and software development. “With business, food and computer science backgrounds, we figured we had everything we needed.” Mr LaFAve said.

   The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December and the site has had 43,000 visitors in the past month. So far, 29 sellers have opened shops and 41 are in the process of opening them. The founders recently hired a fourth employee to help Ms Olson recruit(吸收) new food producers at farmers markets and food shows. Mr LaFAve is convinced that the recession(經(jīng)濟衰退) will not reduce people’s interest in buying locally grown and handmade food. “There is misunderstanding that all these foods are more expensive than mass-produced alternatives,” he said. “People are pouring their heart and soul into these products, and they are of the highest quality.”

1.The passage is mainly about_______.

A. how an online farmers’ market works

B. the American local food movement

C. three youths starting an online farmers’ market

D. the reasons why people are interested in local food

2.Why did the founders start the online farmers’ market?

A. Because it met the need of the market.

B. Because the founders were interested in seasonal food.

C. Because some people wanted to buy locally grown food.

D. Because farmers wanted to sell their foods.

3.The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be used to describe _______.

A. food of high quality     B. terrible food     C. food of low fat     D. fried food

4.About the three founders, we know that ______.

A. they are of the same age

B. they gave up their work to start the website

C. they used to be colleague

D. they majored in farming at college

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C

2.A

3.A

4.B

【解析】

試題分析：文章介紹了三個從事不同職業(yè)的年輕人，發(fā)現(xiàn)消費者與生產(chǎn)者之間存在障礙，產(chǎn)品銷不出去，消費者買不到滿意的產(chǎn)品。于是，他們建立了一個農(nóng)貿(mào)網(wǎng)站，以方便信息的公開。

1.根據(jù)“Now, thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products. Foodzie was started by Mr LaFave and two of his friends,...The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public”可知，文章主要講的是三個年輕人建立了一個在線農(nóng)貿(mào)市場，幫助當(dāng)?shù)氐霓r(nóng)民賣產(chǎn)品。故選C。

2.根據(jù)第二段“realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn’t work in the business had no way to discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling to faraway customers, either.”可知，市民無法發(fā)現(xiàn)優(yōu)質(zhì)的綠色產(chǎn)品，而小農(nóng)無法把產(chǎn)品賣給遠方的消費者，這就需要通過一種方法，把消費者和生產(chǎn)者聯(lián)系起來，故選A。

3.She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn’t work in the business她在一家美食連鎖做品牌經(jīng)理，根據(jù)“realized that people who enjoyed fine food”可知，她接觸到的消費者，購買的都是優(yōu)質(zhì)產(chǎn)品，故選A。

4.根據(jù)最后一段“The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December”可知，他們?nèi)�人辭掉了各自的工作，開辦了這個網(wǎng)站。故選B。

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