阅读理解 PALO ALTO, Calif.—It was not so long ago that the aroma of Moroccan spiced prawns wafted out to a downtown street here from the open-air patio called Zibibbo. Today that patio is behind locked doors, obscured by frosted grass. The formerly crowded bar has been converted into a sparsely populated startup space of a dozen engineers, their bikes and whiteboards. All told, more than 70,000 square feet of Palo Alto retail and restaurant space were lost to office space from 2008 to 2015, as the tech bubble drove demand for commercial space downtown.
It is a story playing out across Silicon Valley, where restaurateurs say that staying afloat is a daily battle with rising rents, high local fees and acute labor shortages. And tech behemoths like Apple and Googleare hiring away their best line cooks and dishwashers with wages, benefits and perks that restaurant owners simply cannot match.
We're competing more for staff than we are for guests at this point, said Craig Stoll, a James Beard Award-winning chef and co-owner with his wife, Annie Stoll, of Delfina. They have not been able to fully staff their Silicon Valley locations since they opened about two years ago. They used to require their line cooks to have particular experience. Now we' re just selling ourselves on Craigslist, posting pictures good-looking waitresses to recruit staff, Stoll said. In the last year, the Stolls have lost several of their best servers to Twitter in San Francisco. To compete, the couple have been increasing pay and perks as much as possible, but they say they still often have to blank off entire sections of their Silicon Valley restaurants simply because there is not enough staff to service them. Recently, they have resorted to hiring their daughter and her friends to step in. We're breeding our own workforce at this point, Stoll joked.
Last year, Brigette Lau and Chamath Palihapitiya opened Bird Dog, a stylish restaurant down town. But even with Silicon Valley's backing and their own substantial means, Lau said operating a restaurant in Palo Alto was not for the faint of heart. I'm supportive of the startup community, but not at the expense of the community, she said.

单选题 26.According to Paragraph 1, in the past seven years, the reason for restaurant space having been converted into office space in Palo Alto was that______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段最后一句。in the past seven years(在过去的七年里)指文中提及的2008年~2015年。B项“科技提高对帕洛阿尔托城商业空间的需求”与原文表述一致。A项“数十名工程师强烈要求改变餐饮空间”、C项“餐饮业业主完全退出餐饮业”和D项“政府政策支持创业群体”均未在文中提及，故本题选B。

单选题 27.The following are the challenges for the restaurateurs from Silicon Valley EXCEPT for______.

单选题 28.The reason for the Stolls to close off their restaurant in Silicon Valley is that______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段第六句but they say they still often have to blank off entire sections…because there is not enough staff to service them。close off是该句中blank off的同义替换，均有“关闭；封锁”之意。B项“没有足够的服务员去服务顾客”与文中原因表述一致，故选B。A项“他们没有经验丰富的厨师”和C项“他们的员工被Twitter挖墙脚”在第三段均有提及．但却不是斯托尔夫妇经常关闭整片就餐区的真正原因，故排除。D项“没有足够的时间去管理”在文章中并未提及，故本题选B。

单选题 29.According to Paragraph 3, the Stolls employed their daughter and her friends in order to______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段倒数第二句。B项“培养自家的劳动力”是文中斯托尔的原话，该选项干扰性较大，这是斯托尔无奈之下开玩笑所说的，并不是其真正用意所在。C项“让孩子们经历艰苦的劳动”和D项“培养孩子们的能力”在此段均未提及，故排除。通过第三段首句“我们更多地是在争夺人手，而不是顾客”和倒数第三句“……而原因就是没有足够的服务员”可推出A项“解决人员不足问题”为正确答案，故本题选A。

单选题 30.Brigette Lau' s attitudes toward the phenomenon that tech has disrupted local restaurant industry in Silicon Valley is______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】态度题。根据题干关键词定位到文章最后一段。通过布里盖特-刘所说的话“在帕洛阿尔托经营餐厅可不适合心脏不好的人。我本人支持创业群体，不过这不应该以牺牲当地的民众与企业作为代价”可推断出，其对科技公司颠覆了硅谷的餐饮业这种现象持否定态度，故D项“不赞成的”为正确答案。A项“不确定”、B项“支持的”和C项“顺从的”均与题意不符，故本题选D。