题型：任务型阅读 题类：常考题 难易度：困难
湖北省荆门市2018-2019学年高一上学期英语期末考试试卷
The coffee story
Kaldi was tired but he couldn't sleep. His goats were awake and very noisy. "Why can't they sleep?" Kaldi thought. They were eating some green plants with little red fruits on them. Kaldi decided to taste the fruits. He ate the soft part of each fruit and the hard things in the centre. He was not tired. He felt more awake and did not want to sleep.
Those hard things were coffee beans, and Kaldi discovered them in Ethiopia more than 1,000 years ago. Perhaps it is true, perhaps not. Nobody knows. But we know that coffee grew first in Ethiopia, and we know that somebody discovered it there more than 1,000 years ago.
Arab farmers began to grow coffee plants. People learnt to make a drink from the beans, and they called it qahwa.
For 400 years, only the Arabs knew about qahwa. Then people in Turkey learnt about it. Soon after that, western Europeans began to drink it, and in 1652 the first coffee shop in London opened.
Some famous coffee-growing countries are Brazil, Colombia, Indonesia and, of course, Ethiopia Coffee is one of the world's favourite drinks thanks to Kaldi and his goats.
A. At least that's the traditional story.
B. After a minute he began to feel different.
C. Many Arab farmers grew coffee to make money.
D. Now farmers grow coffee in many parts of the world.
E. Coffee was such an important drink during that time period.
F. He couldn't understand the problem so he watched the animals carefully.
G. After that, Arab travelers took coffee plants to Egypt and other Arab countries.
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