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摘要： before long不久以后

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　　There are two McDonalds－Mac and Dick－and they are brothers. They like working in their restaurant(饭店), but they get tired of the customers(顾客) ordering so many different things to eat.

　　“If we give customers a smaller menu(菜单), we can make some of the food before they come, and they needn't wait so long for their meals.” says one of the brothers. The other brother says “yes”. He says, “If we can make the customers come to the counter(柜台), we don't need any waiters or waitresses. We can also use plastic(塑料的) plates.”

　　McDonald brothers begin to use these good ideas, and the customers are very pleased. They get their meals very quickly－in less than(不到) a minute－and they pay only 15 cents(分) for hamburgers and 10 cents for fries. The first McDonald's restaurant had no seats for customers to sit on. People take their food away and no one has to clean up any tables after them.

　　Then a man called Ray Kroc comes to the brothers and asks to buy their business. They agree to sell it to him for $27 million(百万). After that, people pay Ray Kroc to open their own restaurants using the McDonald's name. Before long(不久以后), there are McDonald's restaurants all over the USA, and now, they are all over the world－even in China. The most successful(成功的) McDonald's business is in HK, China.

1．The McDonald brothers offer(提供) customers fewer kinds of food so that(以便) ________.

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A．they needn't to have waiters or waitresses

B．they can use plastic plants

C．customers can get their meals quickly

D．customers can pay less

2．Customers “pay only 15 cents for hamburgers” means the hamburgers are ________.

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