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阅读短文，从方框中选择单词，并用其适当形式填空，使短文意思完整、通顺。每词限用一次。

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Coffee is one of the most popular 1. in the world. Like tea, it is said to have healthy benefits. It can help wake us up and keep up going. Coffee drinking, however, is much 2. than tea drinking.

Legend (as written in the 17th century) tells a story which happened in the 9th 3. . A person named Kaldi found that animals and people could become more active after eating coffee berries. Slowly, more and 4. people began to learn about the coffee bean. So more coffee plants were needed and grown. Today Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Its neighbor Colombia 5. the third largest producer. The second largest producer is Vietnam. The fourth and 6. largest producers are Indonesia and India. Coffee plants are grown in 70 countries around the 7. which produce 8 million tons of coffee each 8. .

Almost 25 million people make a living by 9. coffee plants. Every year 500 billion cups of coffee are 10. around the world. That is about 80 cups a year per human being! Coffee is truly a worldwide drink.

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