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The macaroon Queen of India Pooja Dhingra is an Indian chef and businesswoman, the owner of macaroon bakery chain Le 15 Patisserie (西饼店) in Mumbai. She should have been a lawyer. But while studying _41_ at university in Mumbai, she decided to _42 her major and do something more creative. Dhingra’s father and her elder brother are both restaurant owners. Remembering helping her mother in the _43_ during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. She _44_ her parents to let her attend a hospitality (招待) and management course in Switzerland. Three years later, she went to Paris to learn the _45_ of French baking. There her friends took her to one of the best macaroon shops. After just one _46_, Dhingra determined that when she returned to Mumbai she would _47_ her own shop, the first of its kind in India.  After graduation, she started making macaroons in her parents’ kitchen, _48_ it was a complete failure. The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it _49_ to make delicious cakes. It took her around six months of research and 60 failed _50_ to finally get a favorite recipe. Yet being both young and female _51_ she faced extra challenges. “The biggest problem was to get people to take you _52_,” she says. “For example, if I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me.” Dhingra eventually opened her first shop in 2010. To _53_ sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaroon was, Dhingra gave away some _54_ macaroons to customers, which made her cakes popular immediately. She continued _55_ new recipes. “Once you know basic techniques, inventing recipes is very _56_,” she said. “All you need is an open _57_. I get a lot of my ideas and _58_ from basic things around me.”  Dhingra is the author of a best-selling cookery book, The Big Book of Treats. She also started running classes on how to make macaroons and other cakes. In 2016, Dhingra _59_ her business, opening a new location called Le 15 Café. Today, as a professional baker, Dhingra _60_ up one of India’s finest patisseries. 41. A. art                  B. law                      C. history                      D. medicine 42. A. quit                 B. check                C. enjoy                    D. follow 43. A. bedroom              B. basement                 C. study                    D. kitchen 44. A. reminded             B. warned                   C. convinced                D. allowed 45. A. techniques               B. situations               C. functions                    D. results 46. A. drink                B. kick                     C. breath                   D. bite 47. A. visit                B. open                 C. sell                         D. name 48. A. so               B. or                   C. but                          D. for  49. A. difficult            B. unusual                  C. reasonable                   D. available 50. A. preparations         B. messages                 C. programs                     D. attempts 51. A. included             B. meant                C. admitted                     D. explained 52. A. seriously            B. properly                 C. differently                  D. peacefully 53. A. ignore               B. report                   C. promote                      D. examine 54. A. strange              B. modern               C. famous                   D. free 55. A. introducing          B. creating                 C. demanding                D. protecting 56. A. typical              B. familiar                 C. simple                       D. regular 57. A. task                 B. reply                    C. mind                     D. secret 58. A. inspiration              B. authority                C. progress                     D. equipment 59. A. preserved            B. inspected                C. acquired                     D. expanded 60. A. covers           B. heads                C. picks                    D. brings  答案： BADCA DBCAD BACDB CCADB

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