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广东省广州市2019届中考英语模拟试卷(六)
Coffee has long been one of the most popular 1 in the world. In 9th century Arabia, it was first recorded 2 people drank coffee. Planting of coffee first 3 in Yemen, in the Middle East, in the 15th century, and it 4 to take coffee plants out of the country. However, plants were eventually smuggled to India and 5 there to Europe. The first coffeehouse in London 6 in the 1680s, and soon they were hundreds all over the city. Coffeehouses were known as 'penny universities'7 you could buy a cup of coffee for only a penny and learn more at the coffeehouse than in class!
In 1690, the Dutch introduced coffee farming to their colonies in Indonesia. Coffee 8 South America several decades later, when the French brought a coffee plant to the island of Martinique. When a rare plant disease destroyed the coffee plantations of Southeast Asia 9 the mid-19th century, Brazil emerged as the world's 10 coffee producer, which it 11 is today. The first automatic coffee 12 machine was produced in France in 1822 and instant coffee was first marketed in 1909.
To give you 13 idea of the popularity of coffee, Starbuck Coffee opened its first store in 1971 and today has over 5,000 locations in more than 20 countries. Why is coffee so popular? People believe that coffee gives you energy so it14 you concentrate on work. It also tastes15, and everyone has his or her favourite type of coffee: cappuccino, espresso, iced, mocha.
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