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A．It is printed on single side．
B．It is published once a month．
C．It contains three pages．
D．It is free for customers to read．

参考答案D

解析: People Who are grabbing coffee or a meal at a restaurant are sure to have some time on their hands whilethey waiting to place their orders and receive their food.All the while, they often wish they had somethingquick, light, and interesting to read.
A single, thick sheet of paper fills that need and serves neighborhood businesses in 700 U.S.communities and 400 other places around the world.
(20) It's a weekly publication that's printed, front and back, in three columns, and placed in shelves forcustomers to pick up.The middle column is filled with wise sayings, trivia items, notes about the day inhistory and unconventional stories.The two outside columns are packed with advertisements for neighborhoodcar washes, wedding photographers, pest-control companies and so forth.The Whole sheet takes about 10 minutes to read.
The idea originated in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1982, with a woman named Jean Baum.(21) She had seenrestaurant patrons pick up sugar packs from their containers on the table and read the brief, entertaining wordsprinted on the back.
She began distributing a small newspaper, loaded with breezy reading materials, to restaurants, coffeeshops, barber shops, and even hospital waiting rooms.She called it Coffee News.Pretty soon, otherbusinesses Started calling her, asking for copies to give to their customers, and it wasn't long before she wasselling Coffee News distribution rights all across Canada.
(22) When Baum died of cancer in 2007, Bill Buckley purchased worldwide distribution rights.Theformer potato farmer in the northeastern state of Maine had obtained the first Coffee News distribution right inthe United States 12 years earlier.
What do we know about Coffee News?
D.【精解】文中提到，喝咖啡时读的新闻每周出版一次，正反两面印刷，有三个专栏，被放置在架子上，供顾客取用。由此可知，它是免费的，故答案为D.

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A．They read words on sugar packs．
B．They complained about the waiting time．
C．They talked about car washes．
D．They told some unconventional stories．

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A．He used to be a potato farmer in the northeast of the U．S．
B．He purchased the first distribution right in the U．S．in 1995．
C．He obtained worldwide distribution rights before Baum died．
D．He renamed the newspaper after he purchased distribution rights．

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C．Introducing the history of color industry．
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