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An end to second-hand coffee

To the naked eye, this farm is just like any other. But it doesn’t take long to realise that the farm of Jesus Martin, though not huge, is anything but ordinary.

Martin grew up like many others in the Santa Ana Valley –– known as the Coffee Triangle of Colombia—on a coffee farm owned by his father and grandfather. “I am the youngest of six children and we all worked the farm,” Martin said. “My parents focused their energies on teaching us the agricultural trade, but also the love behind it.”  Despite this great dedication to coffee and respect for his family business, he ended up pursuing a different career altogether: law and business management. It didn’t come easy to him as coffee was never far away.

During every visit to his family’s humble farm, the rich aromas of beans roasting and the smell of his mother’s carrot cake caused his heart to beat faster. Coffee was his life, and in 2004, after years practicing law, he found a way to combine his legal knowledge, business education and family’s lifeline into what he called “the coffee dream project”.

Despite growing some of the most coveted beans in the world, most Colombians have never even tasted the Colombian coffee that is renowned around the world. Instead, local people drink what they call “second-hand coffee”, which is made from berries that haven't fully ripened, have been over-roasted or even infected with insects and diseases. Like most businesses in struggling economies, the farmers only make profits on exports—so they save their best stuff for higher paying countries. “Farming coffee for a profit is very challenging,” Martin explained, tossing a few berries in his hand. “The coffee trade intermediaries, exporters, roasters and big multinational companies are the ones that benefit the most in the coffee-trade chain.”  Martin’s dream project, however, was to turn this process around, bringing specialty coffee back to Colombia.

The project, however, was a total surprise for his family. “When I first informed them, they told me I was crazy, they said it was a wild goose chase.”

Even with his background in farming, starting the project from the ground up was difficult. Convincing his workers to focus on quality was his biggest concern; most only cared about quantity since their wage was dependent on how many beans they picked. Martin recalled many hours, days and weeks training local farmers to understand the process, from the colours of the raw berries to the smell and taste of the beans once they’d been dried and sorted.

Once the farmers understood the importance of quality, it was onto phase two: bring the roasting process in-house, instead of paying for the beans to be roasted elsewhere. Buying his own roaster—one of the only five in the entire country—was expensive, but the purchase offered a huge saving in roasting, packaging and exporting costs.

By 2008, his passion started to pay off; he opened his flagship store Café Jesus Martin in Salento. The shop and its team of trained baristas, Martin said, have done much to teach the locals about enjoying specialty coffee. The look on their face when they take their first sip is what keeps him motivated. “They are reacting so positively; they’re discovering something entirely different than what they’re used to consuming,” Martin said. “When they discover the difference in quality of their coffee, they start to care more about where and whom it’s coming from.”

17. The most difficult thing for Martin in the beginning was to make his workers …

1) care about the product standards.

2) pick bigger quantities of beans.

3) undergo special training.

4) agree to lower wages.

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An end to second-hand coffee

To the naked eye, this farm is just like any other. But it doesn’t take long to realise that the farm of Jesus Martin, though not huge, is anything but ordinary.

Martin grew up like many others in the Santa Ana Valley –– known as the Coffee Triangle of Colombia—on a coffee farm owned by his father and grandfather. “I am the youngest of six children and we all worked the farm,” Martin said. “My parents focused their energies on teaching us the agricultural trade, but also the love behind it.”  Despite this great dedication to coffee and respect for his family business, he ended up pursuing a different career altogether: law and business management. It didn’t come easy to him as coffee was never far away.

During every visit to his family’s humble farm, the rich aromas of beans roasting and the smell of his mother’s carrot cake caused his heart to beat faster. Coffee was his life, and in 2004, after years practicing law, he found a way to combine his legal knowledge, business education and family’s lifeline into what he called “the coffee dream project”.

Despite growing some of the most coveted beans in the world, most Colombians have never even tasted the Colombian coffee that is renowned around the world. Instead, local people drink what they call “second-hand coffee”, which is made from berries that haven't fully ripened, have been over-roasted or even infected with insects and diseases. Like most businesses in struggling economies, the farmers only make profits on exports—so they save their best stuff for higher paying countries. “Farming coffee for a profit is very challenging,” Martin explained, tossing a few berries in his hand. “The coffee trade intermediaries, exporters, roasters and big multinational companies are the ones that benefit the most in the coffee-trade chain.”  Martin’s dream project, however, was to turn this process around, bringing specialty coffee back to Colombia.

The project, however, was a total surprise for his family. “When I first informed them, they told me I was crazy, they said it was a wild goose chase.”

Even with his background in farming, starting the project from the ground up was difficult. Convincing his workers to focus on quality was his biggest concern; most only cared about quantity since their wage was dependent on how many beans they picked. Martin recalled many hours, days and weeks training local farmers to understand the process, from the colours of the raw berries to the smell and taste of the beans once they’d been dried and sorted.

Once the farmers understood the importance of quality, it was onto phase two: bring the roasting process in-house, instead of paying for the beans to be roasted elsewhere. Buying his own roaster—one of the only five in the entire country—was expensive, but the purchase offered a huge saving in roasting, packaging and exporting costs.

By 2008, his passion started to pay off; he opened his flagship store Café Jesus Martin in Salento. The shop and its team of trained baristas, Martin said, have done much to teach the locals about enjoying specialty coffee. The look on their face when they take their first sip is what keeps him motivated. “They are reacting so positively; they’re discovering something entirely different than what they’re used to consuming,” Martin said. “When they discover the difference in quality of their coffee, they start to care more about where and whom it’s coming from.”

18. We may conclude from the last paragraph that Martin’s store …

1) is what Martin’s project was all about.

2) serves coffee that is very different from what the Columbians were used too.

3) is only the first in the line of many more.

4) is the thing he cares about most now.

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Listening to the radio 

Many of us get our news and entertainment from television and the Internet. You might be surprised to learn, then, that people who listen to the radio are much happier than (19)________ (THAT) people who use the other media outlets. 

It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Television and the Internet offer entertainment, but negative activity (20)_________ (INCLUDE) in the mix as well. We sometimes see saddening news reports, and we do tedious things online, such as check account balances. 

With radio, people listen to it because they want to feel good. It seems that in recent years we (21)__________ (FORGET) about the joy radio gives us because we focus on television and the Internet so much.  

Funny noise 

Maria was lying on her bed reading quietly. All of a sudden, she heard the strangest noise, which sounded something like insects, (22)___________ (COME) from the living room. Initially, she tried to ignore it but it just became more and more annoying. So, finally she (23)__________ (GO) to investigate. There in the living room, on the coffee table, was her laptop. On the screen, a pop-up advert (24)_________ (APPEAR), probably half an hour earlier, for a game with thousands of crickets. With one quick click, there was peace and quiet in the house again.

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Пример ответа: was built

Listening to the radio 

Many of us get our news and entertainment from television and the Internet. You might be surprised to learn, then, that people who listen to the radio are much happier than (19)________ (THAT) people who use the other media outlets. 

It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Television and the Internet offer entertainment, but negative activity (20)_________ (INCLUDE) in the mix as well. We sometimes see saddening news reports, and we do tedious things online, such as check account balances. 

With radio, people listen to it because they want to feel good. It seems that in recent years we (21)__________ (FORGET) about the joy radio gives us because we focus on television and the Internet so much.  

Funny noise 

Maria was lying on her bed reading quietly. All of a sudden, she heard the strangest noise, which sounded something like insects, (22)___________ (COME) from the living room. Initially, she tried to ignore it but it just became more and more annoying. So, finally she (23)__________ (GO) to investigate. There in the living room, on the coffee table, was her laptop. On the screen, a pop-up advert (24)_________ (APPEAR), probably half an hour earlier, for a game with thousands of crickets. With one quick click, there was peace and quiet in the house again.

Прочитайте приведённый ниже текст / приведённые ниже тексты. Преобразуйте, если необходимо, слова, напечатанные заглавными буквами в конце строк, обозначенных номерами 19–24, так, чтобы они грамматически соответствовали содержанию текстов. Заполните пропуски полученными словами. Каждый пропуск соответствует отдельному заданию из группы 19–24.

Пример ответа: was built

Listening to the radio 

Many of us get our news and entertainment from television and the Internet. You might be surprised to learn, then, that people who listen to the radio are much happier than (19)________ (THAT) people who use the other media outlets. 

It makes perfect sense when you think about it. Television and the Internet offer entertainment, but negative activity (20)_________ (INCLUDE) in the mix as well. We sometimes see saddening news reports, and we do tedious things online, such as check account balances. 

With radio, people listen to it because they want to feel good. It seems that in recent years we (21)__________ (FORGET) about the joy radio gives us because we focus on television and the Internet so much.  

Funny noise 

Maria was lying on her bed reading quietly. All of a sudden, she heard the strangest noise, which sounded something like insects, (22)___________ (COME) from the living room. Initially, she tried to ignore it but it just became more and more annoying. So, finally she (23)__________ (GO) to investigate. There in the living room, on the coffee table, was her laptop. On the screen, a pop-up advert (24)_________ (APPEAR), probably half an hour earlier, for a game with thousands of crickets. With one quick click, there was peace and quiet in the house again.