Although people everywhere seem to enjoy drinking coffee, they do not all have the same coffee culture. In Europe for example, coffee shops are common places for people to meet friends and to talk when they drink coffee. However, coffee shops were not as common in North America in the past. Although some people in North America went to coffee shops, most Americans liked to drink coffee in their homes with their friends better. The coffee culture in the USA changed（改变）when Starbucks coffee shops opened across the country.
The first Starbucks coffee shop opened in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, in the USA. It was a small coffee shop that roasted（烘焙）its own coffee beans（豆）. The coffee sold well, and by 1981 there were three more Starbucks shops in Seattle.
Things really began to change for Starbucks in 1981. That year, Howard Schultz met the three men who ran（经营）Starbucks. He found that Starbucks ordered a large number of special coffee makers, and he really wanted to know why. Schultz went to Seattle to see what Starbucks did. In1982, the three Starbucks owners hired（雇用）Schultz as the Starbucks head of marketing.
In 1983, Schultz traveled to Italy. He was interested in the special feeling of coffee shops there. Back in the USA, Schultz created a comfortable feeling for Starbucks coffee shops, and people everywhere seemed to like it. With the help of Schultz, Starbucks became successful and famous. It began opening more coffee shops. Today there are more than 16, 000 Starbucks coffee shops around the world.
However, that does not mean Starbucks doesn’t have problems. For example, many Starbucks shops have closed over the past few years. In some places this is because there were too many coffee shops in one small place. In other places or countries, this is because the coffee culture there isn’t the same as Starbucks culture.
【小题1】What can we learn from Paragraph 1?| A．All the coffee cultures are the same. |
| B．People in Europe don’t like to drink coffee. |
| C．Americans never went to coffee shops. |
| D．Starbucks changed American coffee culture |
| A．He didn’t do a good job in Starbucks. | B．He helped Starbucks to be successful. |
| C．He had over 16, 000 shops in the US. | D．He couldn’t stand coffee shops in Italy. |
| A．All of the coffee tasted the same. | B．Coffee in Starbucks was too expensive. |
| C．People wait too long in Starbucks. | D．A small place has too many coffee shops. |
| A．The history of Starbucks. | B．Starbucks’ main problems |
| C．Different coffee cultures. | D．Coffee shops in the world. |
