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In 2007, design graduates, Joe Gebbie and Brian Chesky, were struggling to pay the rent for their San Francisco apartment. Hearing that there was a conference coming to town and there were no hotel rooms available, they created the website airbedandbreakfast.com where they advertised three airbeds in their home at $$$$80 each a night, breakfast included. Only six days later, they had three guests sleeping on their floor. They knew immediately that this was the start of something big.

Being budding entrepreneurs, the pair decided to take their idea further. They enlisted Gebbie's former flatmate, Nathan Blecharczyk, a computer science graduate, to develop their website. Their idea was to target conferences and festivals across the USA, getting local people to list their rooms and travelers to book them. The new website was completed just in time for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, at which Barack Obama was due to speak in front of 80,000 people. Within a week, they had 800 listings, an achievement which dealt in part with the shortage of hotel rooms, but did not solve their financial problems, as the site was not making any money.

The team decided that they would have to handle payment for the bookings. They began to charge three per cent to the host and between six and twelve per cent to the traveler, depending on the price of the booking. Meanwhile, investors had started showing interest in the company. By April 2009, when larger investments began to arrive, they moved the company out of their flat into a new state-of-the-art office and hired more staff.

Since then Airbnb has gone from strength to strength. The company now has over 1.5 million listings in 34,000 cities in 190 countries, and is rumoured to be worth around $$$$20 billion.

(Adapted from Friends Global)

Question 18. The word state-of-the-art in paragraph 3 OPPOSITE in meaning to ______.

        A. unconventional        B. modern        C. old-fashioned        D. cutting-edge

Question 19. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as the reason for the creation of the website airbedandbreakfast.com?

A. Joe Gebbie and Brian Chesky were trying very hard to cover the rent for their San Francisco apartment.

B. There were no hotel rooms available at that time.

C. They heard that a conference was coming to San Francisco.

D. They were looking for bed and breakfast accommodations in private homes.

Question 20. The word handle in paragraph 3 could be best replaced by ______.

        A. refuse        B. operate        C. receive        D. manage

Question 21. In which paragraph does the writer imply that there was a temporary need for accommodation in the city, which led to Gebbie and Chesky’s decision?

        A. Paragraph 3        B. paragraph 2        C. Paragraph 1        D. Paragraph 4

Question 22. The word their in paragraph 2 refers to ______.

        A. conferences        B. festivals        C. local people        D. entrepreneurs

Question 23. In which paragraph does the writer mention the method of payment for booking on Airbnb?

        A. Paragraph 3        B. Paragraph 1        C. Paragraph 4        D. paragraph 2

Question 24. Which of the following is TRUE about the new website designed by Nathan Blecharczyk?

A. It helped Gebbie and Chesky to make a huge profit as soon as it was launched.

B. It aided Gebbie and Chesky to rent out properties nationally.

C. It enabled Gebbie and Chesky to accommodate the guests at a Denver convention.

        D. It made it easier to put travelers in touch with hosts abroad.

Question 25. Which of the following best paraphrases the underlined sentence in paragraph 4?

A. Airbnb has built up more strength in the present economic climate.

B. Since that time Airbnb has been out of the frying pan into the fire.

C. Airbnb has become more and more successful ever since.

        D. From that moment on Airbnb has been supposed to be smooth sailing.

 

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