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贵州思南县中学2017高考英语阅读理解一轮精编及参考答案 【2016高考训练】阅读理解—推理判断题。 When most of us hear the word chocolate. the verb that comes to mind is probably ”eat”|, not “drink”, and the most proper adjective would seem to be “sweet”. But for about 90 percent of chocolates long history, it was strictly a beverage(饮料), and sugar didnt have anything to do with it. The Origin of Chocolate Many modern historians have estimated that chocolate has been around for about 2,000 years, but recent research suggests that in may be even older. In the book The True HISTOUY OF Chocolate, authors Sophie and Michael Coe prove that the earliest linguistic(语言学的) evidence of chocolate consumption dates back three or even four thousand years. Valuable and Fashionable Chocolate Beverage Its hard to discover exactly when chocolate was born, but its clear that in was cherished from the start. For several centuries in pre-modern Latin America, cacao beans were considered valuable enough to use as currency. 100 beans could purchase a good turkey hen, according to a 16th-century Aztec document. Sweetened chocolate didnt appear until Europeans discovered the Americas and sampled(品尝) the native cuisine . Chocolate didnt suit the foreigners taste at first—one described it in his writings as “a bitter drink for pigs” —but once mixed with honey or cane sugar, it quickly became popular throughout Spain. By the 17th century, chocolate was a fashionable drink throughout Europe, believed to have nutritious, medicinal functions. But it remained largely a privilege of the rich until the invention of the steam engine made mass production possible in the late 1700s. The Birth of Solid chocolate In 1828, a Dutch chemist found a way to make powdered chocolate. His product became known as “Dutch cocoa”, and it soon led to the creation of solid chocolate. In 1847, Joseph Fry created the first modern chocolate bar. By 1868, a little company called Cadbury was marketing boxes of chocolate candies in England. Milk chocolate hit the mar