The American local food movement has been

题目内容：

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:The founders of the site employed another person to help _______________.

A．open new shops in faraway markets

B．buy locally grown and handmade food

C．find more food outside their local farmers’ markets

D．find more food growers to open shops on their site小题5:about the three founders, we know that ________________.

A．they are of the same age

B．to start the website they gave up their work

C．they used to be colleague

D．they majored in farming at college

最佳答案：

小题1:C

小题1:A

小题1:A

小题1:D

小题1:B

答案解析：

略

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