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“Man cannot live by bread alone,” said the proverb. But he needs bread in order to live. I am a baker, not because I can make a lot of money, nor because it is an easy life, but because I enjoy my work, and I can earn enough to live comfortably without too much worry. I make cakes; I am proud to say that they are quite famous in the neighborhood and my customers are always satisfied. Many housewives have to go out to work these days, and they are glad to come to our shop for cakes which look and taste just like those that their mothers used to make at home. I heard one man (his wife always buys my cakes) talking proudly about his wife's cooking. “We never eat cakes bought from a shop,” he said.
My father was a baker, too, and my grandfather before him. But they did all the hard work by hand, while we have machines which work more quickly and efficiently than men. In the bakery(面包房), we still prepare the dough(面团) for the bread at night, mixing the flour and the yeast(酵母) with water by machinery instead of by hand. We keep it at a fixed temperature. At five o'clock in the morning, the actual work begins. Two men watch as a machine cuts off pieces of the dough, and weighs them to the correct size for a loaf of bread. The men quickly shape these pieces by hand, and put them into tins which have already been prepared by another machine. A moving belt carries these along very slowly in the direction of the oven, so that even before the actual cooking begins, the dough has risen and the tins are half full. The oven is filled, the door is shut, and then the only thing left to do is to wait for the bread to cook. The finished loaves are larger still, of course, brown and crusty. They smell delicious and they taste even better.
1．The baker enjoys his work because ________.
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A．he doesn't have to work very hard
B．he has no financial problems
C．his cakes and bread are famous
D．his shop is comfortable
2．The man talked so proudly about the cakes he ate at home because ________.
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A．he didn't know his wife bought their cakes from the baker's
B．his wife made as tasteful bread as his mother
C．his wife learnt from the baker and made wonderful cakes
D．the cakes he ate at home were not bought from the baker's
3．What was the baker's grandfather according to the passage?
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A．He was a laborer doing hard work by hand.
B．He was a baker who did his job by hand.
C．He used to be a baker before his son was born.
D．The writer doesn't tell us what he was.
4．According to the passage, the dough for the bread was ________.
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A．prepared as early as five o'clock in the morning
B．prepared by two men with the help of some machines
C．kept at a place with warm temperature
D．kept at a place where the temperature was constant
5．From what the baker said, we can infer that the correct size of the pieces of the dough of his bread cut off by machines was ________.
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A．smaller than half size of the tins
B．a little larger than the size of the tins
C．half as large as the full size of the tins
D．exactly as large as the size of the tins
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