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
Coffee, a hot beverage favored by people in different regions, is said to have been【1】______【1】______ in Ethiopia. It was found
Coffee, a hot beverage favored by people in different regions, is said to have been【1】______【1】______ in Ethiopia. It was found
admin
2010-06-18
32
问题
Coffee, a hot beverage favored by people in
different regions, is said to have been【1】______【1】______
in Ethiopia. It was found by a man named Kaldi, a
goat【2】______. When he was taking his goats 【2】______
through the mountains, they stopped to graze the
plants nearby. Suddenly, some of them became
very excited, jumping up and down. Such strange
【3】______was confusing to Kaldi but by taking 【3】______
the same plants, he found the answer--their excitement
was related to the【4】______beans they 【4】______
had eaten. To prove his finding, he took some
beans back and asked the villagers to eat. They,
too, felt the【5】______effect. 【5】______
Ever since then, people would take some beans
when they were in the mountains and wanted to be
more【6】______Later they learned to 【6】______
【7】______the beans by picking and drying 【7】______
them. However, the dried ones were too hard to
eat,【8】______people started to crush them and 【8】______
then boil them in water.
Since the bean was found in the province called
Kaffa, it got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee".
The【9】______of coffee drinking spread to the 【9】______
Arab countries through the Arab travelers and then
through both travelers and【10】______to other 【10】______
regions such as Europe, North America and Asia.
Today, it became a popular hot drink around the
world.
【1】
Coffee is one of the most popular beverage throughout the world today. In fact, according to some estimates, over 30% of all adults in the world drink coffee at least once a day on the average.
Coffee contains a kind of drug called caffeine. Caffeine is a chemical substance that stimulates the nerves of the body. Drinking coffee tends to make people a little bit more awake or alert2--at least for a short time-- because of this stimulating effect on the nervous system. A cup of coffee has, on the average, about 3% caffeine in it.
One story of the discovery of the coffee plant relates to the effect of caffeine. According to the story, coffee was discovered in southern Ethiopia--in East Africa--in a province called Kaffa. The story says that coffee was first found by a goat farmer, or rather a goat herder named Kaldi. This was in about the year 850, according to the story, Kaldi, the goat herder, was leading his animals through the mountains and the goats were stopping constantly to eat plants near the path. Suddenly, some of the goats started jumping up and down in a very strange way. Kaldi figured out that the goats were acting this way because of the plants they were eating. Kaldi himself tried eating some of the green beans that the goats had been eating. He, too, felt the stimulating effect of the beans.
Kaldi wanted to prove what had happened, so he picked some of the beans and took them back to his home village, where he told his story.
The green bean got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee" because the beans were discovered in the province called Kaffa in Ethiopia.
Then, for years, people used to eat a few of the green Kaffa beans when they were in the mountains and needed extra energy or stimulation. It was later found that the coffee beans could be picked and then dried until they turned brown, and then they could be stored. If the beans were dried and stored, they could be used at any time.
When the coffee beans were dried, however, they were too hard to eat, as had been done before. There- fore, people began to crush the beans into small pieces--and then boil the pieces in hot water--and make a hot drink.
Gradually, it became common to drink this hot beverage in Ethiopia. Next, the hot coffee drink became popular among Arab travelers who visited Ethiopia. The Arabic word "Kawah" means coffee.
After coffee drinking became common in the Arab countries, its popularity spread to Europe. Once again, it was spread by travelers. In the 16th and 17th centuries travelers and traders from Europe began to visit the Arab countries. The Arab merchants and shopkeepers served coffee to the Europeans. Apparently, the Europeans liked coffee and as travel increased, the amount of coffee drunk in Europe increased.
Gradually, the European traders and explorers introduced coffee drinking to the people in North American and Asia. Coffee drinking increased rapidly in the late 1700’s and 1800’s. Today it remains a popular hot drink in many places.
选项
答案
discovered/found
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/kClO777K
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
Pardonme:howareyourmanners?1Thedeclineofcivilityandgoodmannersmaybeworryingpeoplemorethancrime,accordi
Insomesocietiespeoplewantchildrenforwhatmightbecalledfamilialreasons:toextendthefamilylineorthefamilyname,
ThegrammaticalwordswhichplaysolargeapartinEnglishgrammarareforthemostpartsharplyandobviouslydifferentfromt
Inadditiontothenationalsocialsecuritysystem,17specialpensionschemesareamongthesocialadvantagesthatgovernmente
StudyActivitiesinUniversityInordertohelpcollegeanduniversitystudentsintheprocessoflearning,fourkeystudya
Mostoftheillhealthwesuffercouldbepreventedifpeoplemademoreefforttochangetheirlifestyles.Insteadmanypeople
Today,scienceandtechnologydevelopveryfast,andbooksonscientificandtechnologicalknowledgearepublishedatarateof
ThebiggestproblemfacingChileasitpromotesitselfasatouristdestinationtobereckonedwith,isthatitisattheendof
LearningforItsOwnSakeForme,scientificknowledgeisdividedintomathematicalsciences,naturalsciencesorsciencesde
随机试题
国家信用的作用包括()。
下列各种现金流量,属于现金流量表中经营活动产生的现金流量的有()。Ⅰ.公司支付给职工以及为职工支付的现金Ⅱ.偿还债务支付的现金Ⅲ.支付的增值税、所得税款项Ⅳ.收到的税费返还
A、祛风湿,治骨鲠B、利水渗湿,泻热C、行气止痛,温肾散寒D、燥湿,行气,平喘E、温中降逆,温肾助阳丁香功能()
在Excel2003中,在某单元格中输入“=-8+4*6”,则按回车键后此单元格显示( )。
某上市公司每10股派发现金红利5元,同时按10配4的比例向现有股东配股,配股价格为6.8元。若该公司股票在除权除息日的前收盘价为12元,则除权(息)报价应为()元。
投资组合理论出现以后,风险指()。
关于职业责任,下列说法中正确的是()。
【2015.陕西汉中】为了证明“卵生”是不是鸟的关键特征,教师举了麻雀和乌龟两个例子。麻雀的例子属于()例,乌龟的例子属于()例。
TogetfromKathmandutothetinyvillageinNepal,DaveIrvine-Hallidayspentmorethantwodays.Whenhearrived,hefoundvill
间接投资
最新回复
(
0
)