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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
New Foods and the New World In the last 500 years, nothing about people—not their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as
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2012-12-22
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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 (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.
选项
A、Food.
B、Clothing.
C、Ideology.
D、Language;
答案
A
解析
围绕中心(文章标题中的用词“新食物”)直接判断答案:也可利用题干中的特征结构(thelast500years)作为答案线索,这样在文章中找到直接答案相关句:In the last 500years, nothing about people—not their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as much as what they eat.该划线句说“在人们的生活中没有什么东西所发生的变化像人们所吃的食物那样变化大。”因此答案是A。
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