The World Café was 15 created.
答案：(D) thus
語意「世界咖啡館『就此』誕生了」，thus（就此/因此）承接前面描述的整個過程，作為結果的總結；still（仍然）、also（也）、further（進一步）都不合。
The World Café was ___ created. 四個選項都是副詞，塞進去讀起來都很順，所以你可能憑語感隨手挑一個。但這一格是本篇唯一線索在句子之外的題目：要判斷的不是這句話本身通不通，而是這句話和前面整段是什麼關係。
往前看整段的走向：下雨 → 擠進客廳 → 分小桌談 → 換桌 → 新想法不斷冒出來 → 催生出新的協作形式。這一整串是「過程」，而 The World Café was ___ created 是這串過程的結果。表示結果的副詞就是 thus（因此、就此）。下一句 Since that rainy morning... 把時間切成「那天之後」，也印證這句是整件事的收尾。
still（仍然）表示狀態持續，但世界咖啡館是新誕生的，不是「仍然存在」；also（也）表示再追加一件事，可是前面並沒有提到「另一個東西也被創造出來」；further（進一步）需要前面已經有一個階段才談得上推進，本句是初次誕生。這三個都要求前文有特定鋪陳，而前文只有一條單純的因果線。
thus（因此、就此）、and thus（因而）、thus far（到目前為止）、over the course of（在……的過程中）、in turn（接著、反過來）、emerge from（從……浮現）。
In 1995, a group of business and academic leaders met at the home of Juanita Brown and David Isaacs in Mill Valley, California. None of them had any idea they were about to create a social innovation that 11 rapidly around the world.
The group was supposed to have a large-circle discussion in their beautiful garden. Unfortunately, it started pouring. With their plan 12 by the rain, the two dozen participants squeezed into the living room. They broke into small, intimate table conversations, recording their insights on paper tablecloths. They periodically stopped their conversations to switch tables so the insights and ideas might 13 and deepen. As they moved from one table to another, they noticed new ideas emerging from the discussions. This in turn enriched subsequent rounds of conversation.
Over the course of the morning, the innovative discussion process 14 a new form of collective effort that transformed the depth, scope, and quality of their discussion. The World Café was 15 created. Since that rainy morning in Mill Valley, the World Café approach has been applied to multi-group discussions and cooperative actions by businesses, industries, and educational institutions around the world.