New Foods and the New World
he 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 leave their homeland and move to America.
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 worlds population now starts the day with.
A Food.
C ideology.
32 Some in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to54
B some chocolate drinks.
D some South American Indians.
A they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else.
C the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes.
34 Which country is the largest coffee producer?
B Colombia.
D Egypt.
A One third of the worlds population drinks coffee.
C Coffee can keep one awake.
参考答案:31. A32. C33. D34. A35. B
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