Pooja Dhingra is an Indian chef and businesswoman, the owner of macaroon bakery chain Le 15 Patisserie (西餅店) in Mumbai. She should have been a lawyer. But while studying ________ at university in Mumbai, she decided to ________ her major and do something more creative.

Dhingra’s father and her elder brother are both restaurant owners. Remembering helping her mother in the ________ during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. She ________ her parents to let her attend a hospitality (招待) and management course in Switzerland. Three years later, she went to Paris to learn the ________ of French baking. There her friends took her to one of the best macaroon shops. After just one ________, Dhingra determined that when she returned to Mumbai she would ________ her own shop, the first of its kind in India.

After graduation, she started making macaroons in her parents’ kitchen, ________ it was a complete failure. The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it ________ to make delicious cakes. It took her around six months of research and 60 failed ________ to finally get a favorite recipe. Yet being both young and female ________ she faced extra challenges. “The biggest problem was to get people to take you ________,” she says. “For example, if I had to buy machinery, I would have to ask my father to make these calls for me.”

Dhingra eventually opened her first shop in 2010. To ________ sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaroon was, Dhingra gave away some ________ macaroons to customers, which made her cakes popular immediately. She continued ________ new recipes. “Once you know basic techniques, inventing recipes is very ________,” she said. “All you need is an open ________. I get a lot of my ideas and ________ from basic things around me.”

Dhingra is the author of a best-selling cookery book, The Big Book of Treats. She also started running classes on how to make macaroons and other cakes. In 2016, Dhingra ________ her business, opening a new location called Le 15 Café. Today, as a professional baker, Dhingra ________ up one of India’s finest patisseries.

1.A. artB. lawC. historyD. medicine

2.A. quitB. checkC. enjoyD. follow

3.A. bedroomB. basementC. studyD. kitchen

4.A. remindedB. warnedC. convincedD. allowed

5.A. techniquesB. situationsC. functionsD. results

6.A. drinkB. kickC. breathD. bite

7.A. visitB. openC. sellD. name

8.A. soB. orC. butD. for

9.A. difficultB. unusualC. reasonableD. available

10.A. preparationsB. messagesC. programsD. attempts

11.A. includedB. meantC. admittedD. explained

12.A. seriouslyB. properlyC. differentlyD. peacefully

13.A. ignoreB. reportC. promoteD. examine

14.A. strangeB. modernC. famousD. free

15.A. introducingB. creatingC. demandingD. protecting

16.A. typicalB. familiarC. simpleD. regular

17.A. taskB. replyC. mindD. secret

18.A. inspirationB. authorityC. progressD. equipment

19.A. preservedB. inspectedC. acquiredD. expanded

20.A. coversB. headsC. picksD. brings

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