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  3. The ancient Aztecs venerated the cacao tree and used its beans as a form of currency. They【C1】______the tree as a source of stre

The ancient Aztecs venerated the cacao tree and used its beans as a form of currency. They【C1】______the tree as a source of stre

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问题     The ancient Aztecs venerated the cacao tree and used its beans as a form of currency. They【C1】______the tree as a source of strength and wealth and【C2】______their god Quetzalcoatl its guardian. The Aztecs discovered that by crushing the beans into a paste and adding spices, they could make a【C3】______and nourishing drink. This drink would have been very bitter,【C4】______our chocolate drinks today. 16th century European explorers brought the drink back from their【C5】______, added sweeter flavourings, and soon it was【C6】______as an expensive luxury.
    In the 1800s, solid chocolate became popular,【C7】______the invention of moulding processes.【C8】______grinders crushed cocoa beans to a【C9】______powder that could be heated and poured into moulds,【C10】______shapes【C11】______it cooled. Dutchman Coenrad Van Houten perfected the【C12】______of cocoa butter from cocoa beans in 1825. The beans are crushed to a paste, which is【C13】______very high pressure, forming chocolate liquor and cocoa butter. The extracted butter is smoothed and【C14】______to remove any odors. In the 1880s, Rudolphe Lindt of Switzerland started adding【C15】______cocoa butter during chocolate manufacture, to make it【C16】______and glossier. Cocoa butter melts at around 97°F, which is human body temperature. That’s why chocolate melts in the mouth.
    In 1875 , Swiss Daniel Peter perfected the【C17】______of milk chocolate, which is sweeter and smoother than dark chocolate. Nestle’s recently-invented【C18】______milk was easy to mix with cocoa paste, unlike liquid milk. Cadbury’s "Dairy Milk", first【C19】______in 1905, is the UK’s most【C20】______chocolate bar. Milk chocolate is now the world’s best-selling variety.
【C6】
选项 A、drunken
B、popular
C、typical
D、particular
答案B
解析 篇章题。上下文理解题。从整篇文章来看，文章每段讲巧克力的一个发展阶段，后两段都无一例外地用了popular(受欢迎)这个阋来描写巧克力的接受情况；再者，接下来的句子又讲“固体巧克力受到欢迎”，这也暗示我们之前的可可饮料的情况。因此，我们可推出整篇文章讲巧克力从一种饮料开始，经过固体巧克力再到如今的牛奶巧克力，一直广受人们的欢迎。选项popular“受欢迎”正合题意，为正确答案。drunken意为“喝醉酒似的，摇摇晃晃”，如：I’m afraid that a drunken quarrel will leadnowhere．恐怕酒后争吵是没有什么用的。
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