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(经济衰退) 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.”
【小题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

【小题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.

【小题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

【小题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

【小题1】C
【小题2】A
【小题3】A
【小题4】B

解析试题分析：文章介绍了三个从事不同职业的年轻人，发现消费者与生产者之间存在障碍，产品销不出去，消费者买不到满意的产品。于是，他们建立了一个农贸网站，以方便信息的公开。
【小题1】根据“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，文章主要讲的是三个年轻人建立了一个在线农贸市场，帮助当地的农民卖产品。故选C。
【小题2】根据第二段“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，市民无法发现优质的绿色产品，而小农无法把产品卖给远方的消费者，这就需要通过一种方法，把消费者和生产者联系起来，故选A。
【小题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她在一家美食连锁做品牌经理，根据“realized that people who enjoyed fine food”可知，她接触到的消费者，购买的都是优质产品，故选A。
【小题4】根据最后一段“The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December”可知，他们三人辞掉了各自的工作，开办了这个网站。故选B。
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