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The Macaroon Queen of India

Pooja Dhingra is an Indian chef and Businesswoman, the owner of macaroon bakery chain Le 15 Patisserie (西饼店) in Mumbai. She should have been a lawyer. But while studying __36__ at university in Mumbai, she decided to __37__ her major and do something more creative.

Dhingra’s father and her elder brother are both restaurant owners. Remembering helping her mother in the __38__ during her childhood, she decided to work with food instead of legal cases. She __39__ 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 __40__ of French baking. There her friends took her to one of the best macaroon shops. After just one __41__, Dhingra determined that when she returned to Mumbai she would __42__ her own shop, the first of its kind in India.

After graduation, she started making macaroons in her parents’ kitchen, __43__ it was a complete failure. The hot and wet weather in Mumbai made it __44__ to make delicious cakes. It took her around six months of research

and 60 failed __45__ to finally get a favorite recipe. Yet being both young and female __46__ she faced extra challenges. “The biggest problem was to get people to take you __47__,” 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 __48__ sales in a city where very few people knew what a macaroon was, Dhingra gave away some __49__ macaroons to customers, which made her cakes popular immediately. She continued __50__ new recipes. “Once you know basic techniques, inventing recipes is very __51__,” she said. “All you need is an open __52__. I get a lot of my ideas and __53__ 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 __54__ her business, opening a new location called Le 15 Café. Today, as a professional baker, Dhingra __55__ up one of India’s finest patisseries.

36. A. art               B. law         C. history        D. medicine

37. A. quit              B. check       C. enjoy          D. follow

38. A. bedroom        B. basement       C. study          D. kitchen

39. A. reminded       B. warned         C. convinced      D. allowed

40. A. techniques     B. situations     C. functions      D. results

41. A. drink            B. kick         C. breath         D. bite

42. A. visit             B. open        C. sell           D. name

43. A. so               B. or           C. but            D. for

44. A. difficult      B. unusual        C. reasonable     D. available

45. A. preparations                     B. messages       C. programs       D. attempts

46. A. included       B. meant          C. admitted       D. explained

47. A. seriously      B. properly       C. differently   D. peacefully

48. A. ignore         B. report         C. promote        D. examine

49. A. strange        B. modern         C. famous         D. free

50. A. introducing   B. creating       C. demanding       D. protecting

51. A. typical        B. familiar       C. simple         D. regular

52. A. task             B. reply        C. mind           D. secret

53. A. inspiration   B. authority      C. progress       D. equipment

54. A. preserved      B. inspected      C. acquired       D. expanded

55. A. covers         B. heads          C. picks          D. brings

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