Questions 25 to 27 are based on the following news.

If cigars are your thing, you need to check out the city of Tampa, on Florida’s west coast, along the Gulf of Mexico. Tampa slumbered as a little fishing village while East Coast beach towns began to boom as vacation resorts in the late 1800s.

Around the same time，Key West, off the southern tip of the Florida Peninsula, became the center of the cigar industry. It had largely moved out of Spanish-owned Cuba because of tensions that would eventually lead to war between Spain and the United States.  When those tensions spread to Key West, and some factories were burned， Tampa's leaders invited its biggest cigar maker, Don Vicente Martinez Ybor, to relocate there. (25) He did，importing mild Cuban tobacco by ship.

In their first year alone, workers in two little factories hand-rolled more than 1,000,000 cigars. And before long, the waterfront neighborhood that became known as Ybor City had 250 cigar factories.

In the days when millions of men smoked cigars at work and at home, Ybor City was the undisputed cigar capital of the world, and brands like Have-a-Tampa became household names.

(26) But by the 1960s, cigar manufacturing had become highly mechanized，the government was heavily taxing tobacco products, and the importation of fine-leaf tobacco from Cuba was forbidden.

(27) By the hundreds，Tampa’s cigar factories closed，and Ybor City became a blighted slum.

(27) But it has made a huge comeback and not just because more than a dozen small factories are rolling tobacco leaves again. Ybor City is full of bustling restaurants， nightclubs, and art galleries.

 

题目

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Questions 25 to 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item，you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions ?

Now, listen to the news.

25 :According to the news we can know that  the early cigars were imported from Key West

A. Mexico B. Tampa C.Key West      D. Cuba

26. When did cigar manufacturing become highly mechanized?

A. By the 1950s. B.

C. By the 1960s. D.

27. Now in Ybor City,  are hard to find.

A. restaurants B. nightclubs  C.galleries D. slums 

 

答案解析

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25. D 细节题。原文为 importing mild Cuban tobacco by ship，故选 D。

26. C细节判断题。本题就注意年代与年份的差别，答案为C。

27.  D细节题。现如今的Ybor City早已不是当年破败的贫民窟了，故选D。