Question

I.閱讀理解（共兩節，滿分32分）

第一節（共11小題；每小題2分，滿分22分）

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The air is filled with the wonderful smells of freshly-baked bread. Wel?come to the Hot Bread Kitchen. Six years ago, Jessamyn Rodriguez left her job at the United Nations and started a bakery business. But bread was not all she had in mind.

Ms Rodriguez's idea was to hire women to bake the kinds of bread they made in their home countries. She knew that many women who came from other countries were hard workers, but often very poorly paid. "And I be?lieve that if you invest in a woman you are investing in a family and a com?munity," she said.

She has eighteen women working in her bakery(面包店).They come from Mexico, Bangladesh, Togo, Morocco, Haiti, and other places. "A head baker in New York City can earn sixty-five thousand dollars a year. We're hoping that within a few years our women will be qualified to be head bakers in the city," she said.

The women who work and learn at the Hot Bread Kitchen are paid nine dollars an hour. They also receive health care and get English lessons twice a week. Fatiha Outabount is from Morocco. She said* "Before, I don't speak English — Nothing. Just ' Hi, bye, good night' -" that's it. But when I start to have classes here, I'm speaking English better."

The bread the women bake is sold to markets and expensive restaurants in New York City. Ms Rodriguez says her business is the only bakery in the city that produces bread from so many different cultures. "I like to say that we're like the United Nations of bread," she added.

When I asked Fatiha if the job was what she expected it would be, she smiled and said, "Yes. I love this programme. We learn a lot of stuff. We work like a family."

1. What did Jessamyn Rodriguez decide to do six years ago?

  A. To make bread at home.

B. To start her own business.

C. To work at the United Nations.

D. To find a job at Hot Bread Kitchen.

2. Ms Rodriguez hopes that in the future the women at her bakery will

  A. become managers in different cities

B. become head bakers in New York City

C, invest in women from other countries

D.open their own bakeries in New York City

3 Fatiha Outabount is mentioned in the passage to show that .

  A. the women can get English lessons at Hot Bread Kitchen

B. the women hate working at Hot Bread Kitchen

C. the women work harder than native Americans

D. English is very hard for the women at Hot Bread Kitchen

4. What is implied in what Fatiha Outabount said in the last paragraph?

  A. She expected her job would be much better.

B. She loved her job at Hot Bread Kitchen.

C. She worked at Hot Bread Kitchen with her family.

D. She knew how to make bread from different countries.

Answer 1

綜合能力測評（一）

I.第一節

[文章大意]Jessamyn Rodriguez開了 一家面包店，這家面包店專門雇用從國外

來的女人，讓她們烘烤她們自己國家的面包。

1. B 細節理解題。根據第一段的"Six years ago, Jessamyn Rodriguez left her job at the United Nations and started a bakery business.，，可知Jessamyn Rodriguez六年前決定開始自己的生意，故選B。

2. B 細節理解題。根據第三段的"We're hoping that within a few years our women will be qualified to be head bakers in the city..."可知應選B。

3. A 細節理解題。根據第四段的"She said,'Before, I don't speak English... Noth-ing. Just ' Hi, bye, good night'... that's it. But when I start to have classes here, I'm speaking English better.，"可知，提到Fatiha Outabount是為了說明Hot Bread Kitchen為員工提供英語口語方面的培訓。

4. B 推理判斷題。根據末段的"When I asked Fatiha if the job was what she expec?ted it would be, she smiled and said, 'Yes. I love this programme. We learn a lot of stuff. We work like a family.，"可推知Fatiha很喜歡這份工作。