Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space. For each question 1 – 10, mark the correct letter A, B, C or D

Chocolate

When the Spanish explorer Cortez reached Mexico in the sixteenth century, he found the people there using a drink they ___1____ chocolate. It tasted quite strong ___2___ it had pepper in it. To ___3___ it taste better, the Spanish added sugar to it. When chocolate first came to Europe in the seventeenth century, people started to drink it with milk, ___4___ of water. Nowadays, tonnes of chocolate and cacao are ___5___ to factories, where they are turned ___6___ many popular sweets and cakes. ___7___ chocolate and cacao come from the fruit of cacao tree. Cacao trees___8___ only be grown in hot countries, as they need a warm climate. Cacao is an

American plant, ___9___ still grows wild in the northern part of South America. Countries in Central and South America were the first to grow it, but today Africa ___10___ the world with the most of chocolate.

A B C D

1 announced told called declared

 

2 while because so whether

3 let cause allow make

4 apart except rather instead

5 delivered directed prepared produced

6 down into off over

7 both every either each

8 ought can have might

9 what which who whose

10 brings fetches supplies gives