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IV、篇章結構20% (每題2分) A.　It is impossible to imagine Paris without its cafés.　The city has some 12,000 cafés varying in size, grandeur, and significance.　The cafés are like an extension of the French living room, a place to start and end the day, to gossip and debate.　　 56 　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.57 　By the end of the 18th century, all of Paris was intoxicated with coffee and the city supported some 700 cafés.　 58 　By the 1840s the number of cafés had grown to 3,000.　The men who gathered in these cafés and set 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 figures.　　    59 　The artists gathered at the café may not be as great as those of the past, but faces worth watching are just the same.　 60 　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. 
(A) These were like all-male clubs, with many functioning as centers of political life and discussion. 
(B) Linger a bit and you will see that the Parisian stereotypes are still alive and well. 
(C) Nowadays in Paris cafés still play the role of picture windows for observing contemporary life. 
(D) When did the cafés in France start? 
(E) Le Procope attracted Paris’s political and literary elite, and thus played an important part among the upper class.
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參考答案

答案：D
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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