Question

Section B: Vocabulary

Directions: Complete the passage by choosing the proper words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. political   B. supported       C. gossip        D. set          E. contemporary F. literary     G. alive          H. significance    I. enterprises    J. figures

  It is impossible to imagine Paris without its cafés. The city has some 12,000 cafés varying in size, grandeur, and __41_ . The cafés are like an extension of the French living room, a place to start and end the day, to __42__ and debate.

When did the cafés in France start? The oldest café in Paris is Le Procope. It was opened in 1686 by Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, the man who turned France into a coffee-drinking society. Le Procope attracted Paris’s political and   43   elite, and in this way played an important part among the upper class. By the end of the 18th century, all of Paris was intoxicated with（沉醉在）coffee and the city __44_   some 700 cafés. These were like all-male clubs, with many functioning as centers of __45_   life and discussion. By the 1840s the number of cafés had grown to 3,000. The men who gathered in these cafés and __46_  the theme of the times included journalists, playwrights and writers. Around the turn of the 20th century, the sidewalk cafés became the meeting halls for artists and literary __47__.

Nowadays in Paris cafés still play the role of picture windows for observing __48_  life. The artists gathered at the café may not be as great as those of the past, but faces worth watching are just the same. Linger a bit and you will see that the Parisian stereotypes are still __49_  and well. You’ll see the old men in navy berets; ultra-thin, bronzed women with hair dyed bright orange; and schoolchildren sharing an afternoon chocolate with their mothers. The café in Paris has always been a place for seeing and being seen.

Answer 1

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