The website FarmersOnly.com calls itself an online dating and friendship finder.

The website FarmersOnly.com calls itself anonline dating and friendship finder. The idea started in the mind of a man,Jerry Miller in Ohio. He wondered how farmers could meet new people who understandthe life of a farmer. Jerry Miller is not a farmer but he represents a lot offarmers.

As he tells it, the idea for the site wasplanted when a farmer told him one day that she was recently divorced and wouldlike to date. But someone would invite her to meet for coffee at nineo’clock at night, when she had to start her day at five the next morning.

So, in 2005, Jerry Miller launched hiswebsite. “You don’t have to be a farmer to be on FarmersOnly.com, butyou do have to have the good old-fashioned traditional values of America’sHeartland.” 

You also have to live in the United Statesor Canada to be a member of the site. Some services are free, but a fullmembership costs fifty dollars for a year. As of last week the site listed morethan 58,000 members. Many of them are farmers in the United States. Others arestudents or workers involved in some way with agriculture. Jerry Miller tellsus about thirty marriages in the last year have resulted from his website.

Some farmers have also found love through agroup, Singles in Agriculture, which was formed as a nonprofitorganization in 1986. It organizes gatherings that usually end with a dance,but is not a dating service. The purpose is to support educational and socialactivities that offer people a chance for friendship. Its website, singlesinag.org,says there are more than 1,000 members across the nation and as far away asFrance.

1.Jerry Miller started singlesinag.orgin order to     .

2.What does the underlined sentence inParagraph 2 indicate?

3.Which of the following is true of singlesinag.org?

4.The author of the text intends to     .

5.It can be inferred from the text that     .

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【答案】

1.A

2.C

3.A

4.B

5.D

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