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四川省眉山市仁寿县仁寿实验中学2023-2024学年七年级下学期4月期中英语试题
Fred is a boy of 8 years old. Today after breakfast, he 1 his home and goes to a music club with his sister Jane. And Jane helps to 2 a box. But the box falls (掉落) when Jane talks to Fred happily. The thing in 3 comes out.
Jane is 4 . She knows that it's Fred's favorite thing — a guitar, 5 she says, "I'm really sorry, Fred."
But Fred does not say anything (任何事情) to her.
"Fred?" she says, "Why don't you speak to 6 ?"
Fred says, "I 7 to count (数数) to ten."
"Count to ten?" says Jane, "Why do you want to count to ten?"
"Oh," says Fred, "Dad says I can count to ten when I'm not 8 . I usually get angry (生气的) with you. I 9 that's not right. So I want to be 10 to you this time."
Then Fred puts (放) the guitar into the box.
"Oh, how great you are, Fred! Sorry and thank you," Jane says.
The history of chocolate begins with a plant whose name is cacao (可可豆). For centuries, people worldwide have been enjoying the rich favor of chocolate, a product made from cacao. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}Americans eat an average of more than five kilograms of chocolate per person every year. The specialty （特产） shop shows the culture of chocolate and sells chocolates from different areas of the world.
Historians believe the Mayan people of Central America first learned to farm cacao plants around 2, 000 years ago. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Then they grew them around their homes. They cooked the cacao seeds（种子）and pressed them into soft powder （粉末）. They mixed the powder with water to make a delicious chocolate drink. There are often images of cacao plants on Maya buildings and art objects. The rulers drank chocolate at ceremonies. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}
The Aztecs also valued chocolate in the Aztec culture. But the cacao plant could not grow in the area where they lived. {#blank#}4{#/blank#} They even used cacao seeds as a form of money to pay or give as offerings（祭品）to the gods. Only the very rich people in Aztec societies could afford to drink chocolate because cacao was so valuable.
The explorer Christopher Columbus brought cacao seeds to Spain after his trip to Central America in 1502. The rich people of Spain first enjoyed the chocolate drink. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. Nowadays, the English, Dutch and French all plant cacao trees in their own countries.
A. Chocolate is very sensitive（敏感）to temperature. B. The Mayan took the cacao trees from the rainforests. C. Chocolate is especially popular in the United States. D. Chocolate has been prepared as a drink for nearly all of its history. E. So they had to exchange goods with other societies for cacao seeds. F. Since then, the popularity of the drink has spread throughout Europe. G. And even poorer members of Mayan society could enjoy the drink sometimes. |
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