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 form the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500s. 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 1845-6, 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 worlds 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 1400s.
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 worlds population now starts the day with.
1. According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?
A) Food.
B) Chocolate.
C) Potato.
D) Coffee
2. Some in Some still exist today means
A) some cocoa trees.
B) some chocolate drinks.
C) some shops.
D) some South American Indians.
3. Thousands of Irish people starved during the Potato Famine because
A) they were so dependent on the potato that they refused to eat anything else.
B) they were forced to emigrate to America.
C) the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing the potato.
D) the potato harvest was bad.
4. Coffee originally came from
A) Brazil.
B) Colombia.
C) Ethiopia.
D) Arabia.
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(二十二)
新GRE词汇复习资料:Invective
新GRE词汇复习资料:contentious
GRE出国考试词汇辅导:GRE反义词总结(中)
新GRE词汇复习资料:indolent
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(十四)
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(十二)
新GRE词汇复习资料:imperial
新GRE词汇复习资料:diffidence
新GRE词汇复习资料:pariah
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(二)
新GRE词汇复习资料:asperity
新GRE词汇复习资料:implacable
新GRE词汇复习资料:impetuous
新GRE词汇复习资料:vacillation
新GRE词汇复习资料:diatribe
新GRE词汇复习资料:contaminated
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(十三)
新GRE词汇复习资料:impious
新GRE词汇复习资料:bogus
新GRE词汇复习资料:Synonyms
新GRE词汇复习资料:capricious
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(十八)
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(十六)
新GRE词汇复习资料:auspicious
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(十一)
新GRE词汇复习资料:tangential
GRE词汇 动词同义的词汇介绍(九)
新GRE词汇复习资料:umbrage
新GRE词汇复习资料:predilection
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |