首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
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
admin
2011-01-01
51
问题
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(可可树) 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 (饥荒)" of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move 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, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.
According to an Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person 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.
According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?
选项
A、Food
B、Clothing
C、Ideology
D、Language
答案
A
解析
根据文章,近500年来以下哪种事情改变最大?根据文章第一段,“在近500年期间,对于人类来说,包括他们的服装、观念、语言,没有比他们的食品的变化更大的了”。因此,选项A食品是正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/HrFd777K
本试题收录于:
职称英语综合类B级题库职称英语分类
0
职称英语综合类B级
职称英语
相关试题推荐
SmartWindowsWindowsnotonlyletlightintocutdownonelectricityuseforlighting,butthelightcomingthroughthewi
BellewouldbefedsomefruitjuiceifsheWhichofthefollowingstatementsindicatesthesuccessoftheexperiment?
WhenWeAreAsleepEveryonedreams,butsomepeopleneverrecalltheirdreams,ordosoveryrarely.Otherpeoplealwayswa
MotherNatureShowsHerStrengthTornadoes(龙卷风)andheavythunderstormsmovedacrosstheGreatLakesandintoTrumbullCount
IntheUnitedStates,theneedtoprotectplantandanimalspecieshasbecomeahighlycontroversialandsharplypoliticalissue
GamblingislawfulinNevada.
Gamblingislawfulinthisstate.
Reliefworkerswereshockedbywhattheysaw.
IfImadeamistake,Iwilltrytoremedyit.
随机试题
DaydreamingI.DaydreamingcanbeharmfulbecauseitwasconsideredasA.awasteof【T1】______B.a【T2】______ofneur
急性炎症中,导致皿管通透性升高的速发反应的炎症介质是
真心痛的关键病机是
为准确反映自身的财务状况,商业银行对部分存款的利息要按规定进行计提。大华银行××支行于今年6月末计提了某一类定期存款第二季度的应付利息,并按规定进行了相应的会计账务处理。根据以上资料,回答下列问题:在计提应付利息实际支付时,正确的会计处理是()
小组工作是社会工作的基本方法之一,它可以发挥多方面的作用,其基本特征包括()。
A、 B、 C、 D、 A封闭图形和开放图形间隔排列。
设f(x)在x=a处二阶可导,则等于().
包过滤防火墙对数据包的过滤依据不包括()。
下列说法中,错误的是
基本表属于全局模式中的表,它是,而视图则属于局部模式中的表,它是______。
最新回复
(
0
)