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四、阅读理解。短文后有5道题，每道题后面都有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题，从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。

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 by South American 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 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 world’s 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 1400’s.

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 world’s 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

答案：A 细节辨析题。定位于第一段In the last 500 years, nothing about people---not their clothes, ideas, or languages---has changed as much as what they eat.可知在过去的500年，他们吃的食物改变得最多。因此选A。

2. "Some" in "Some still exist today" means

A) some cocoa trees.

B) some chocolate drinks.

C) some shops.

D) some South American Indians.

答案：C 词义解释题。定位于第一段In London shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.根据语境，可判断some指代的是前一句的主语shop，故选C。

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.

答案：D 细节辨认题。定位于第二段thousands of Irish people starved when the crop failed (土豆歉收、减产)during the "Potato Famine" of 1845-6,选项D符合原文内容，故选D。

4. Coffee originally came from

A) Brazil.

B) Colombia.

C) Ethiopia.

D) Arabia.

答案：C 细节辨认题。定位于第三段But it is native to(=come from) Ethiopia.故选C。

5. The Arabic legend is used to prove that

A) coffee was first discovered by Kaldi.

B) coffee was first discovered by Kaldi’s goats.

C) coffee was first discovered in south American countries.

D) coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.

答案：D 细节辨认题。定位于第三段It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.后解释说明了The Arabic legend，因此选D。

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