In the 500 years, nothing about people --- not their clothes, ideas,
. C5 C* n9 s4 |4 C9 j/ f6 Bor languages--- have changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate 1.__
9 J1 d( I2 } M. {" u: c/ P" qdrink was made of the seeds of the cocoa tree by South American 2.______: o8 M1 W8 I' r2 N1 f
Indians. The Spanish introduced them to the rest of the world during the 1500s. 3._# |0 c! c! J8 [* x" ]% E3 I& u
And although it was very expensive, but it quickly became fashionable. 4. ______* w) U' s. p% K8 \6 Y6 A& S
In London, shops chocolate drinks were served became important 5.____, j# Y s; s. z* x% b& i: ~
meeting places. Some still exist today.0 b k% j* {4 w* b" r4 ?( x" r, M+ {4 \6 y
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600s, the Spanish bought it 6.___
4 T) ~( g$ g5 M& I6 Z0 U1 Z+ e0 y+ o; sfrom Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became very 7. ____: W- F; `$ k3 S, Q9 f8 d$ s- {4 K
dependent on it that thousands of Irish people starved when the crops were failed 8.____ c% d$ \$ P C6 h5 s' ^1 b! @4 K& s
during the “ potato Famine” of 1645 -1646, and thousands more were forced; Y. p4 U ^6 F# T2 ^) H% f. r6 `. W
to emigrate to America.
% w, d& |2 T S" g6 w5 k& WThere are many other foods that have traveled from south Africa to the Old# L& I: a! M6 t: p$ e, k# H
World. But some others went for the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s 9._
5 l# |( t3 D* Xlargest grower of coffee, but coffee is an important crop in Colombia and 10.__( n d1 l2 P. l) F' f U/ _. B) O
other South American countries.
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% z0 k: k3 e& q" E) v7 E5 H$ [! O本句的主语是nothing,破折号里面只是插入语,所以谓语应该用第三人称单数。2 k" l! l% E: n6 l' u8 ^
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这里考查be made of 和be made from的辨析。原料加工后完全变了样,这是用be made from;原料加工后仍可辩认,这时用be made of. 句中指“咖啡饮料是由咖啡树种子制成的”,由于原料无法辨认,所以用be made from。
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, ]$ q0 B$ B7 e3 U考查代词一致。句中是说西班牙人引进巧克饮料,指上文中的chocolate drink,故用it。
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5 T2 H) |& p3 ^在一个句子中,(al)though 和but不可同时连用。
2 H6 k' X! d; T1 Q* b9 t5.shops后加where
/ M8 j# }/ b. i$ _2 u0 `5 M* t0 {# {本句的主干应该是shops became meeting places,而中间那句是定语从句修饰shops,并且shops在从句中左地点状语,所以应该在shops后加上where。
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形近词辨析。根据句子的意思,土豆应该是被从秘鲁带到欧洲,而不是被买到欧洲。
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本句为so…that…结构
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0 p/ T5 y+ k( x! d$ u: c1 e/ yfail 在句中作不及物动词,不能用被动语态。
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& o5 Z) z# |( s4 R( B考查固定搭配,in the opposite direction,direction应该与in搭配。
4 ^3 X4 Z$ p" M6 m% Z3 r10.but -%26gt; and |