[-2:22.00]a fast-food restaurant,a bakery, or a supermarket.
[-2:23.00]In fact,chain stores have become part of people's daily lives.
[-2:24.00]They may pop into a chain bakery to buy breakfast on their way to work,
[-2:25.00]and they may visit a chain supermarket
[-2:26.00]in the evening to pick up things for tomorrow or weekend use.
[-2:27.00]Chain stores have become so popular
[-2:28.00]that they are even put on some people's list of criteria
[-2:29.00]when they are choosing a place to live.
[-2:30.00]Why have chain stores grown so fast in number and influence?
[-2:31.00]Meeting the customers' needs is the answer.
[-2:32.00]Opened in convenient locations,the store are usually next door to people's homes
[-2:33.00]and close to the bus-stops or underground stations.
[-2:34.00]They offer a wide range of products in a clean,well-lit and relaxing atmosphere.
[-2:35.00]Prices,too,are reasonable.
[-2:36.00]It seems that chain stores are a welcome development in China.
[-2:37.00]They are certainly a new force changing China's retail market.
[-2:38.00]Listening page 75
[-2:39.00]Listen to some fascinating McDonald's McFacts.
[-2:40.00]Supply the missing information.
[-2:41.00]1.McDonald's is the largest food service organization in the world
[-2:42.00]serving nearly 43,000,000 people a day.
[-2:43.00]It now operates more than 27,000 restaurants in 119 countries around the world.
[-2:44.00]2.McDonald's opened its first restaurant outside the US in 1967 in Canada.
[-2:45.00]3.There is a new McDonald's opening every five hours somewhere in the world,
[-2:46.00]or about five new McDonald's every single day.
[-2:47.00]4.McDonald's expects to open 1,500 to 2,000 restaurants annually
[-2:48.00]over the next several years.
[-2:49.00]5.McDonald's prepares more than 2.5 million pounds of French fries
[-2:50.00]every day to meet its customers' demand world-wide.
[-2:51.00]6.The sesame seeds used on Big Mac TM buns every year weigh 2,400 tons on average.
[-2:52.00]7.McDonald's cracks more than 3,000,000 fresh eggs
[-2:53.00]every morning to serve breakfast to its customers world-wide.
[-2:54.00]8.If lined up end to end,McDonald's more than 100,000,000,000 hamburgers served
[-2:55.00]would go from Earth to the moon and back more than 19 times.

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