The Body Shop was founded in 1976 by Dame Anita Roddick. It currently has a range of 1,000 products that sell in 3,000franchised stores in 66 countries. Anita Roddick’s cosmetics business idea originated from her visitation in 1970 of "The BodyShop" housed in a car repairs garage in the U.S. selling soaps and lotions of natural ingredients. Six years later, in 1976,Roddick opened a similar shop in the UK with the same business name, color scheme, and cosmetic lines. Since its first launch,The Body Shop experienced swift growth, increasing at a rate of 50 percent annually. The Body Shop supported social andenvironmental campaigns to promote its business later in the 1980s. In 1997, Roddick launched a global feminism campaignagainst media stereotyping for women. One of the foci was unreasonably skinny models whose images on media led to theincreasing numbers in bulimia and anorexia then. The Body Shop was sold to L'Oréal in March 2006. It was reported that Anitamade £130 million from the sale. Later in an interview after the takeover, Roddick addressed herself as “trojan horse” who byselling her business to a huge firm will be able to influence the decisions it makes. Following her death in 2007, Prime MinisterGordon Brown ______ her the title, Dame Anita, and praised her an inspiration to businesswomen.
31. The Body Shop in the U.S. _______________.
(A) was located in a garden
(B) was one of Anita Roddick oversea franchised stores
(C) sold skin-care products using nature materials
(D) experienced a rapid growth from its first launch