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 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 (饥荒)"of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move 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, a country in Africa .it was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400's.
According to an Arabic 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.
第 31 题 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.
第1题
下列说法不正确的是()。
A.互换局均兼有经转局和验关局的业务功能
B.国际邮件交换站是国际邮件进出口口岸
C.互换局和交换站的设立和撤销由集团公司决定
D.互换局可以选择是否设立海关机构
第8题
邮件业务档案的检查数量由()根据单据的重要程度自行确定。
A.中心局
B.邮政管理局
C.各省公司
D.地方局
第9题
A.投递局
B.收寄局
C.封发局
D.运输局
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