职称英语考试

【单选题】Yes, We SpeakCupcakeAs a young student at the multinationalAramco(阿拉伯) school inDhahran (达兰), SaudiArabia (沙特) , Fadi Jaber, a son of Palestinian refugees, always preferred hisAmerican classmates’cupcakes, brownies and chocolate chip cookies to his mother’ s pastries.But when he tasted a vanilla - frosted vanilla (香草) cupcake from the MagnoliaBakery in Greenwich Village in 2004, it changed his life. He quit his marketing job at Unilever and used his savings to enroll in a baking management program at the Institute ofCulinary(烹饪的)Education in Manhattan.
And after an internship atBilly’sBakery inChelsea, he was ready for his next move: In July 2007, inAmman, Jordan, he opened SugarDaddy’s, the shop that brought the cupcake craze to the MiddleEast.
Cupcake shops have become as ubiquitous(到处存在的) as hot dog stands in someAmerican cities, and have spread to Rome ; Istanbul ;Berlin ; Seoul, South Korea; and Sydney,Australi
A、Now Mr. Jaber has proved that even theArab world is not immune to such a Western foo
D、
Members of Jordan’s royal family stop by the shop in jcans and sweatshirts, ordering boxes of cupcakes while their bodyguards wait outside. It is rumored that Queen Rania is a fan.
SinceDecember 2008, the shop, which also sells cheesecakes and brownies, has been in the well -to -do neighborhood ofAbdoun, which is thick with embassies and upscale (高消费的)restaurants. Mr. Jaber has also opened a SugarDaddy’s inBeirut and inDubai.
Most of his clients were familiar with cupcakes from living or studying abroa
D、Others knew them from the TV show" Sex and theCity" which has been shown on regional satellite stations for a few years. One customer asked him to draw lips on every cupcake. When he asked her why, she replied, "Because that’s so’ sex and theCity. ’ "
Nabil al- Rabaa, Mr. Jaber’s partner inBeirut, where the shop opened late last year, said that while most customers had encountered cupcakes before, there was initial confusion. "There were a lot that would say, "I’ll take that muffin, and one of those muffins, "Mr. al - Rabaa sai
D、"Please, these are cupcakes ! "Kamal Mouzawak, a food writer and founder of Lebanon’s first farmers’ market, said that the chain appeals to the region’s historic sweet tooth.
In July 2007, Fadi Jaber opened his first SugarDaddy’s inAmeric
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A、Right
B、WrongC、Not menhoned

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