The door of a popular coffee bar in central Delhi1.________(be) seldom shut for long as a steady stream of customers walk in and out.
Many of them 2.________(be) youngsters－college students and young working people wanting to relax over a cup of coffee.
“Without being disturbed, you can sit for a long time and have a cup of coffee, and chat；nobody 3.________(disturb) you here，”said a girl.
“You can sit, talk and spend time here, and have a cup of coffee, hang out with your friends, nice time，”added another customer.
“Basically the setting and the fact that you can sit here, relaxed. They actually allow you to relax, that’s the thing，” a girl said.“I get to meet a lot of people here.”
“Young people 4.________(be) looking for a place where they can hang out, let down their hair, and have a good time, and the coffee 5.________(be) a good excuse to bring them together. It made coffee far more easily reached，” said another young boy.
The coffee culture 6.________(have) been spreading rapidly in recent years as coffee bars began rapidly increasing in Indian towns and cities.It is a trend that has been repeated in some of the traditional teadrinking cultures of East Asia, such as China and Hong Kong.
The results 7.________(have) been great：home use of coffee last year increased by nearly onethird, from 60,000 to 80,000 tons.
That is good news for the coffee industry, which 8.________(be) recovering from a fiveyear crisis. Indian coffee growers, who 9.________(export) threequarters of their produce，10.________(be) hit hard for it at that time.Although the export market11.________(have) now recovered, the growers hope to make some of their incomes in the home market in the future.
The success of cafes in India has attracted the attention of international chains. U．S. coffee giant Starbucks12.________(be) exploring possible partners, and says it wants to enter the country by the end of the year.
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