Question

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You are going to read a magazine article about chocolate. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A – G the one which fits each gap. There is one extra sentence which you do not need to use.

It started with a mouthful of chocolate

Jo Fairley introduced people in Britain to the delights of ‘real’ chocolate

It wasn’t unusual to find strange or unfamiliar food lying around our house. My husband, Craig, was often sent new products to try because he ran a health food business. One day I found a sample of the world’s first organic chocolate bar on his desk. As soon as I popped that first piece into my mouth, I thought, ‘Oh, this is the best chocolate I’ve ever eaten.’ I just knew immediately that it would be a great success.
_The chocolate contained sugar and Craig insisted on a strict ‘no sugar’ policy on all his products. So I spent the next three days begging him to add it to his list of products.

On the fourth day, nagged into submission, Craig eventually said, ‘Listen, if you’re so interested in that chocolate, why don’t you do something with it? _ I decided there and then to start my own business. I’d import the chocolate and try to get shops in this country to start selling it. I had money in the bank, and I’d always been interested in starting my own business. Now I had both an opportunity and the means to do it.

Even so, it wasn’t an easy decision to make _ I remember, though, looking at a postcard I’d kept since I was 14 years old. It was a picture of a man standing on the edge of a diving board. Underneath were the words: ‘If you don’t do it, you’ll never know what could have happened if you had.’

Reading this again made me realise that if I went ahead, the worst that could happen was that the business would fail. _In the end, Craig did offer to help me. We decided that I would deal with the marketing side of the new business while he took on sales and distribution.

I rang my bank manager to ask him to transfer £20,000 into my newly opened business account. ‘What for?’ he asked. ‘Chocolate,’ I replied. You could almost hear him shaking his head at the other end of the receiver. My friends were very supportive, however, though I’m sure there were those who thought I was making a mistake. _ At that time, the dark chocolate sold in this country contained only 55% cocoa, whereas we were offering 70%. It was a revolutionary product.

Over the next few years my business boomed. By the end of last year, the company had become a success beyond our wildest dreams, and we knew it had the potential to become even bigger. _ So, when we were approached by a larger company, we decided to sell them a 75% share in the business. Although I knew what we were doing made good business sense, I cried myself to sleep the night we signed the deal. I took a real chance all those years ago, after tasting just a tiny square of chocolate, but I’ve no regrets.


A Apart from anything else, I had no actual business experience.
B But if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life thinking about what might have been.
C But we didn’t have the resources to take it any further ourselves.
D This challenge was exactly the push I needed.
E Craig and I eventually came up with Green and Black because the chocolate was both organic and very dark in colour
F But to me it felt right, and most of them could see why.
G There was, however, just one potential drawback.

Answer 1

I. G There was, however, just one potential drawback.

II. D This challenge was exactly the push I needed.

III. A Apart from anything else, I had no actual business experience.

IV. B But if I didn’t, I’d spend the rest of my life thinking about what might have been.

V. F But to me it felt right, and most of them could see why.

VI. C But we didn’t have the resources to take it any further ourselves.

frase não utilizada: E Craig and I eventually came up with Green and Black because the chocolate was both organic and very dark in colour