Passage3Questions11to15arebasedonthefoll
Passage 3 Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:Coffee is a powerful drink. On a personal level, it helps keep us awake and active. (80) On a much general level, it has helped shape our history and continues to shape our culture.Coffee plants grow wild in parts ofAfrica and were probably used by travelling tribes (部落)for thousands of years，but it wasn’t until the 1400s that people figured out they could roast its seeds. “Then it really took off,” said historian Mark Pendergrast—author of Uncommon Grounds: the History ofCoffee and How It Transformed Our Worl
D、By the 1500s, the drink had spread to coffeehouses across theArab world Within another 150 years, it tookEurope by storm. “It actually had a major impact on the rise of business,” Pendergrast says.Coffeehouses became a spot not just to enjoy a cup but to exchange ideas. The insurance industry was founded hundreds of years ago in one of London’s 2,000 coffeehouses. Literature, newspapers and even the works of great composers likeBach andBeethoven were also inspired in coffeehouses. It is often said that after theBoston Tea Party of 1773, whenAmerican colonists (殖民者)attackedBritish tea ships and threw large boxes of tea into the harbor，Americans everywhere switched over to drinking coffee. “There’s a lot of truth to the story, I found,” Pendergrast says. He mentions a letter JohnAdams wrote to his wife,Abigail, in which the Founding Father declares his love of tea but says he will have to learn to accept coffee instead, because drinking tea had become unpatriotic (不爱国的) For all the upsides coffee has brought the modem world, it also brought its fair share of downsides, too.Europeans carried coffee with them as they colonized various parts of the world, and this frequently meant they made people into slaves in order to grow it.The author of the book believes that _____________.
A、drinking coffee was unpatriotic
B、2000 insurance companies were set up hundreds of years ago
C．Europeans were responsible for the existence of slavery
D、coffee actually influenced the rise of business