【单选题】
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 SouthAmerican 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 toEurope, 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 toAmericA、
There are many other foods that have traveled from SouthAmerica 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 inColombia and other SouthAmerican countries.But it is native toEthiopia, a country inAfricA、It was first made into a drink byArabs during the 1400’s.
According to anArabic legend, coffee was discovered when aperson 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.
According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years
A．FooD、B．Clothing.
C、Ideology. D．Language.
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
Food：食物。答案在第一段第一个句子：在过去的500年中，就人而言，没有比吃的东西变化更大的了，衣着、思想、语言方面的变化都比不上吃的变化大。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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 SouthAmerican 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 toEurope, 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 toAmericA、
There are many other foods that have traveled from SouthAmerica 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 inColombia and other SouthAmerican countries.But it is native toEthiopia, a country inAfricA、It was first made into a drink byArabs during the 1400’s.
According to anArabic legend, coffee was discovered when aperson 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.
According to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years
A．FooD、B．Clothing.
C、Ideology. D．Language.
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
Food：食物。答案在第一段第一个句子：在过去的500年中，就人而言，没有比吃的东西变化更大的了，衣着、思想、语言方面的变化都比不上吃的变化大。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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