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　　In the last 500 years nothing about people－not their clothes, ideas, or languages has changed as much as w 1 they eat. Chocolate drink was first made from of the seeds of the cacao by South America Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the r 2 of the world during the 1500s. And although it was expensive, it q 3 became popular. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important places. Some still exist today. The potato is a 4 from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Europe, where it soon was widely g 5 . Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish(爱尔兰的) people starved w 6 the crop failed during the year of 1845-1846, and thousands more were forced to leave for America.

　　There are many other foods t 7 have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil(巴西) is now the world's largest grower of coffee, a 8 coffee is an important crop in other South America countries. But it is native to Ethiopia(埃塞俄比亚). It was first made i 9 a drink by Arabs during the 1400s. According to an Arabic story, coffee was discovered when a goat keeper named Lakdi noticed that his goats were eating red fruits on a coffee tree. He t 10 one and experienced the “wide-awake(彻底清醒的)” feeling that one third of the world's population now starts the day with.

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