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外研版(2024)七年级英语下册 Unit 3 Food matters 试卷
It's a lovely day. Sarah is going to have a picnic in the park with her friends. She has prepared a lot of food:meat and some vegetables. All are the daily food in our life. But do you know where some of them came from? Let me tell you.
Chickens were once wild birds in the forests of Asia. About 3, 400 years ago, humans began to keep chickens. However, the birds were small and their meat was too hard to eat. So people only kept chickens to fight for sport.
The seeds of the cocoa tree can be made into chocolate. But 2, 000 years ago, people in Central America only drank chocolate. In Europe, chocolate drinks started to get popular in the 1500s when sugar was added.
At first, people were afraid of eating tomatoes because they thought tomatoes were poisonous plants. One day, a brave man ate the first tomato. People were surprised that he didn't die. They tried the tomatoes and found that they tasted nice. Soon tomatoes became one of the best vegetables in the market.
Long before ice cream, water ices were popular all over Asia. During the Tang Dynasty, some people made ice cream from milk. Later, travelers took this idea back to Europe. Soon, many people wanted to try it and it became popular everywhere.
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