Multiple Choice (longer text)

Multiple choice (longer text)

Read the text and then answer the questions. For each question, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D).

Soup on Saturdays

Every Saturday morning, a queue forms at a small stall in the corner of Hartley Market. Behind the counter is nineteen-year-old Tomasz Kowal, who sells soup and fresh bread that he makes himself. Two years ago, he had never cooked anything more difficult than pasta. “At school I wanted to study engineering,” Tomasz explains. “Cooking was just something my grandmother did.” Everything changed when she broke her arm and he had to help her in the kitchen for six weeks. “She told me what to do and I did it. At first I was terrible. I burned the onions almost every day, but she never let me give up.” After that, Tomasz started cooking for his family at weekends. His friends tried his food at a birthday party and asked him to cook for their parties too. “That’s when I thought I could earn some money from it,” he says. He got a part-time job washing dishes in a restaurant so that he could watch the chefs and learn from them. Opening the stall was harder than he expected. He had to take a food safety course and borrow money from his uncle to buy equipment. “The first month was awful. Some Saturdays I sold only ten bowls of soup and took the rest home.” Instead of giving up, he asked customers what they wanted. Many said they would like something warm they could eat while walking around the market, so he started selling his soup in paper cups. Now the stall makes enough money for Tomasz to pay back his uncle, and he plans to start a cookery course at college in September. “I don’t want to open a big restaurant,” he says. “I like talking to people while they eat. At a market you see their faces, and that’s the best part of the job.”

1. Why did Tomasz start cooking?

• A. He wanted a hobby while he was studying engineering at school.
• B. He had to help his grandmother after she hurt her arm.
• C. His friends asked him to cook for their birthday parties.
• D. He was washing dishes in a restaurant kitchen at weekends.

2. What does Tomasz say about his grandmother?

• A. She laughed at him when he burned the onions.
• B. She cooked most of the meals while he watched.
• C. She wanted him to study engineering instead.
• D. She made him keep going after his mistakes.

3. Why did Tomasz take a job in a restaurant?

• A. to learn by watching professional cooks at work
• B. to pay back the money he borrowed from his uncle
• C. to earn enough money to buy his own equipment
• D. to find customers for his party cooking business

4. What did Tomasz do when the stall was not selling much?

• A. He took a food safety course to improve his cooking.
• B. He borrowed more money from his uncle to keep going.
• C. He changed the way he sold his soup after asking customers.
• D. He started cooking for parties again to earn extra money.

5. What might Tomasz say about his plans?

• A. “I’ll study cooking, but I’d rather run a small business where I can chat to people.”
• B. “When I finish my college course, I hope to open a large restaurant with my uncle.”
• C. “Now that my uncle has his money back, I’m going to go back to studying engineering.”
• D. “I want to give up the stall and get a job as a chef in a busy restaurant.”