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New Foods and the New World In the last 500 years, nothing about people—not their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed a

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问题                      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 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.
Thousands of Irish people starved during the "Potato Famine" because ______.
选项 A、they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else
B、they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America
C、the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes
D、the potato harvest was bad
答案D
解析 在“土豆饥荒”时期，数千爱尔兰人挨饿是因为……文章第二段提到：爱尔兰人如此依赖土豆，以至于在1845年到1846年土豆歉收时，数以千计的爱尔兰人面临饥饿。由此可见，答案应与土豆的歉收有关。所以，选择D：土豆的收成不好。
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