3 . 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.
