【推荐2】Hello, and welcome to our program of successful business women.

Today, we are looking at the of Maria Silvers, the     1     (found) of a chain of coffee bars. She comes from Singapore,     2     later moved to London with her family. Her father,     3     was a factory manager, filled her a(n)     4     (believe) in hard work. Maria studied political science at university. After     5     (leave) university, she became a teacher. When her father died, she went to New York for a break. Every morning, she’d go to a coffee bar.

When she got back to London she realized that there     6     (be) nothing like those coffee bars. So she decided     7     (give) up her job and do something about it. She opened the first coffee bar in 1995, and her     8     (succeed) was quick. She opened ten more the     9     (follow) year. Now she is proud of her success and plans to open eighty more     10     the eighty-five she already had. And Maria is only 33 years old.