Question

[Ngô Cẩm Nhung]

I. Read the text below and choose the correct word for each space.

For each question, mark the correct letter A. B, C or D on your answer sheet.

                                                                                    CHOCOLATE

When the Spanish explorer Cortez reached Mexico in the sixteenth century, he found the people there using a drink they (56) ........... chocolate. It tasted quite strong (57) ........... it had pepper in it. To (58) ........... it tastes better, the Spanish added sugar to it. When chocolate first came to Europe in the seventeenth century, people started to drink it with milk, (59) ........... of water. Nowadays, tones of chocolate and cocoa are (60) ........... to factories, where they are turned (61) ........... any popular sweets and cakes.

(62) ........... chocolate and cocoa come from the fruit of the cacao tree. Cacao trees (63) ...........       only be grown in hot countries, as they need a warm climate. Cacao is an American plant, (64) ........... 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 (65) ........... the world with the most chocolate.

56.    A. announced 57.    A. while 58.    A. let 59.    A. apart 60.    A. delivered 61.    A. down 62.    A. Both 63.    A. ought 64.    A. what 65.    A. brings

B.  told B.  because B. cause B.  except B.  directed B.  into B.  Every B.  can B.  which B. fetches

C.   called C.   so C.   allow C.   rather C.   prepared C.   off C.   Either C.   have C.   who C.   supplies

D.  declared D.  whether D.  make D.  instead D.  produced D.  over D.  Each D.  might D.  whose D. gives