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Read the article and select A, B or C to answer the questions below. Chocolate first came from Central America. The word chocolate comes from the Aztec language and is the only Aztec word we use regularly in English. The Aztecs made a grease, bitter drink called Xocoatl, from cocoa beans mixed with cold water, spices and cornmeal. The Aztecs used the cocoa bean as a form of money. According to HH. Bancroft, who was a historian, “four beans bought some vegetables, ten beans bought a woman and a slave cost 100”. The explorer Cortes was the first person to bring chocolate to Europe. He presented it to the Spanish Royal Court in Madrid and served it with herbs and pepper. Soon it became very fashionable to drink it mixed with sugar and vanilla and drunk warm. Daniel Peter who was a confectioner in Switzerland, invented milk chocolate in the 1870s. Henri Nestle developed the process. Chocolate contains small amounts of the chemical phenylethylamine, which is also naturally present in the brain, and which gives us the same feeling as when we fall in love. The world’s largest chocolate model was a 10m by 5m representation of the Olympic Centre in Barcelona. In 1980, the Swiss police arrested a young couple because they were trying to sell chocolate secrets to foreign powers. They offered the recipes for 40 different chocolates to the Soviet and Chinese embassies.

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Comprehension Questions. 1. The word chocolate exists thanks to the… a) Spanish people b) English people c) Aztec people 2. In the Aztec empire, the cocoa beans were used to… a) Trade with Spanish b) Exchange goods c) Buy wife 3. Cortes went to Europe and … a) Carried chocolate b) Discovered chocolate c) Invented chocolate 4. It became very fashionable in Europe: a) The Spanish Royal Court b) To drink chocolate c) The explorer Cortes 5. If you eat chocolate, a) Swiss people will thank you b) Mix it with milk and sugar c) You will feel like falling in love 6. The Olympic Centre in Barcelona a) Has the largest chocolate factory b) Got the largest chocolate record c) Was represented of chocolate 7. A couple were arrested by the Swiss Police because they were a) Chocolate recipe burglars b) Chocolate recipes falsifiers c) Chocolate recipe spies

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