全国高中英语Unit5ArtandCulture背景知识拓展重庆版必修3.docx

Unit5 Art and Culture Coffee Culture “ Give me a decaf triple vente, 2 pump vanilla, non-fat, extra hot, stirred, no foam caramel macchiato （ n. 黑糖玛奇朵） with whip cream an d caramel sauce top and bottom. ” 矚 慫润厲钐瘗睞枥庑赖。 If you happen to be standing in one of the ubiquitous( adj. 普 遍 存 在 的 ) Starbucks or Coffee Bean chains in the US, chances are pretty good you mig ht hear someone order something like this. The advent of big business coffee powerhouses like Starbucks has transformed coffee-drinking into an extremely popular and profitable industry that is quickly spreading across the globe. Like other successful consumer-oriented businesses with a stranglehold on modern culture (iPod and Google come to mind), big coffeehouse businesses have made their product increasingly user-friendly, highly customizable, and readily accessible to people all around the world. 聞創沟燴鐺險爱氇谴净。 Coffee has a history dating back to at least the 9th century and has been a catalyst for social interaction across cultures and eras. Originally discovered in Ethiopia, coffee beans were brought into the Middle East by Arab traders, spreading to Egypt, Yemen, Persia, Turkey, and North Africa by the 15th century. Muslim merchant s eventually brought the beans to the thriving port city of Venice, where they sold them to wealthy Italian buyers. Soon, the Dutch began importing and growing coffee in places like Java and Ceylon (largely through slave labor), and the British East India Trading Companywas popularizing the beverage in England. Coffee spread across Europe and even reached America. 残骛楼諍锩瀨濟溆塹籟。 Where there has been coffee, there has been the coffeehouse. From the 15th century Middle Eastern establishments where men gathered to listen to music, play chess, and hear  recitationsfrom works of literature, to Paris ’Caféle Procope （普洛科普 ；普格堡 ； 伯咖啡馆） where luminaries （ n. 发光体；杰出 人物， luminary 的复数） of the French 酽锕极額 閉镇桧猪訣锥。 咖啡文化 “给我一杯热的、无咖啡因和泡沫的香草糖浆脱脂加奶油浓缩式焦糖玛奇朵咖啡。 ” （注释： decaf n. 无咖啡因咖啡，