15．Pooja Dhingra should have been a lawyer．But while studying（16）Cat university in Mumbai，
she decided that she wanted to（17）A her major and to do something more（18）B．
Remembering helping her mother in the（19）Cduring her childhood，she decided to work with
food instead of legal cases．So she（20）D her parents to let her go to Paris to study cooking．
One day，her friends took her to one of the best macaron （法式小圓餅）（21）A in Paris．After
just one（22）D，Ms Dhingra decided there and then that when she（23）C to Mumbai
she would open her own macaron store，the first of its kind in India．
Coming back to Mumbai upon（24）A，she started making macarons in her parents'kitchen，
but it was a complete（25）C．The hot and wet weather in Mumbai makes it（26）B to
make the delicious cakes．It took her around six months of research and 60 failed attempts to finally get a（n）（27）Arecipe （配方）．
Yet being both young and female meant she faced additional（28）D．"The biggest problem
was to get people to take you（29）B，"she says．"For example，（30）A I had to buy
machinery，I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me．"
However，she eventually opened her first shop in 2010．To（31）B sales in a city where very
few people knew what a macaron was，Ms Dhingra（32）D free samples to customers．The
cakes were immediately popular，and sales soon took off（33）C positive word of mouth．
Ms Dhingra also started running classes on how to make macarons and other cakes，（34）A
gave the business a further growing boost （促進）．
Now，although Ms Dhingra is the owner of three busy macaron shops in Mumbai，she still works hard
to（35）D her business．Another three stores will open in the city this year．One newspaper
article called her"the macaron queen of India"．
| 16．A．literature | B．art | C．law | D．medicine |
| 17．A．quit | B．choose | C．consider | D．evaluate |
| 18．A．attractive | B．creative | C．positive | D．active |
| 19．A．basement | B．study | C．kitchen | D．bedroom |
| 20．A．warned | B．reminded | C．begged | D．convinced |
| 21．A．shops | B．factories | C．workshops | D．gardens |
| 22．A．drink | B．effort | C．breath | D．bite |
| 23．A．replied | B．attended | C．returned | D．walked |
| 24．A．graduation | B．invitation | C．invention | D．intention |
| 25．A．comfort | B．honor | C．failure | D．success |
| 26．A．unusual | B．difficult | C．reasonable | D．available |
| 27．A．ideal | B．vital | C．colorful | D．ordinary |
| 28．A．praises | B．sacrifices | C．tasks | D．challenges |
| 29．A．slightly | B．seriously | C．peacefully | D．pleasantly |
| 30．A．if | B．after | C．though | D．unless |
| 31．A．check | B．promote | C．ban | D．examine |
| 32．A．put away | B．smoothed away | C．cleared away | D．gave away |
| 33．A．according to | B．next to | C．thanks to | D．instead of |
| 34．A．which | B．where | C．that | D．who |
| 35．A．preserve | B．inspect | C．acquire | D．expand |
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