职称英语考试

【单选题】第一篇　　　　　　　　　　　　　　New Foods and the New WorldIn 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 toAmeric
A、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 inAfric
A、It was first made into a drink byArabs during the 1400’s.According to anArabic 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 world’s population now starts the day with. Thousands of Irish people starved during the "Potato Famine" because
A、they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else
B．they were forced to leave their homeland and move toAmerica

C、the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes
D． the potato harvest was bad

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