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New Foods and the New World In the last 500 years, nothing about people-not their clothes, ideas, or languages-has changed a
New Foods and the New World In the last 500 years, nothing about people-not their clothes, ideas, or languages-has changed a
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2011-05-17
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New Foods and the New World
In the last 500 years, nothing about people-not their clothes, ideas, or languages-has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine" of 1845—1846, and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from south America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.
According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a goatherd named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee bush. He tried one and experienced the "wide-awake" feeling that one-third of the world’s population now starts the day with.
Coffee originally came from______.
选项
A、Brazil
B、Colombia
C、Ethiopia
D、Arabia
答案
C
解析
细节题。根据第三段倒数第二句:But it is native(本土的, 当地的)to Ethiopia.句中it即指coffee, 意思是咖啡最早产自埃塞俄比亚。A、B项和But it is native(本土的, 当地的)to Ethiopia矛盾;根据第三段最后一句:Arabs最早将咖啡制作为饮品。可以推断D是错误的。
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