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The sweet confection known as chocolate is consumed to the delight of millions worldwide every day. Few of those sweet-toothed n

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问题     The sweet confection known as chocolate is consumed to the delight of millions worldwide every day. Few of those sweet-toothed nibblers fully appreciate the long process by which chocolate is brought to their mouths, however. With an illustrious history, the story of chocolate is a fascinating one, almost rivaling its taste for the attention of its fans.
    The dark treat’s life begins in the form of the dark, pulpy seeds of the cocoa tree, known as chocolate beans. The Mayans of Southern Mexico harvested these beans to produce a bitter drink, marking them as the first to consume chocolate. The first westerner to encounter chocolate, however, was none other than Christopher Columbus, who discovered an abandoned canoe in the American containing various trading goods, including the aforementioned chocolate beans, on August 15, 1502.
    After Hernando Cortez encountered the Mayans and their curious drink, chocolate quickly became popular among the nobility in Europe, who sweetened it with sugar. In 1882, chocolate pioneer Conrad J. Von Houten earned the distinction of being the inventor of solid chocolate when he pulverized the beans to create a powder, which could then be mixed to create a solid form. Von Houten’s innovation made chocolate even more popular, allowing it to spread to the masses, particular in England, which was more egalitarian than most other European nations. Solid chocolate took off, never looking back, and has yet to slow down at all.
    The health implications of eating chocolate are varied, depending on which reports one chooses to read. In general, most of the negative press that chocolate has received over the years has been refuted. The claim that consuming chocolate produces acne has been disproved in recent years, and it has even been concluded in some studies that eating chocolate can contribute to preventing heart disease.
    As to why chocolate lovers seem so happy, science has provided some insight into that question as well. It has been determined that chocolate contains certain elements such as caffeine that increase the production of anandamides, the chemical produced by the body that makes us feel good. Further, other chemicals contained in chocolate have been proven to inhibit the breakdown of those anandamides, making the good feeling last longer.
The health effects of eating chocolate are discussed in paragraph 4 so as to______.
选项 A、persuade the reader that eating chocolate is not harmful
B、inform the reader of the current status of the study of chocolate’s health effects
C、refute claims that chocolate consumption is bad for one’s health
D、advocate the position that chocolate is beneficial to health
答案C
解析 属信息推断题。相关信息在第四段第二句：从总体来看，这些年来大多数关于巧克力的负面评论都遭到了驳斥。下文是举例说明，由此可知，选项C正确，探讨吃巧克力对健康的影响，目的就是反驳吃巧克力对人体健康不利的主张)。选项A、D与本句的意思不符：只有大多数有关巧克力的负面评论被驳斥，这不能肯定地说明吃巧克力就没有害处。选项B与本段最后一句不符，句中使用了现在完成时态has been和时间状语in recent years，由此可推断这些都是最近几年的研究发现，并不是现在的。
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