Endangered Chocolate – IELTS Reading Answers
Endangered Chocolate
Answers
| Question no. | Answers | Keywords | Location of keywords |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | C | sweet white buds hang from the trunk and along a few fat branches which form where leaves drop off. | Paragraph A, line 6 |
| 2 | B | They strip patches of forest of all but the tallest canopy trees and then they put in cacao, using temporary plantings of banana to shade the cacao while it’s young. | Paragraph F,line 3 |
| 3 | A | ‘if a truly devastating disease like witches broom reached West Africa (the world’s largest producer), it could be catastrophic.’ If another producer had the misfortune to falter now, the ripples would be felt the world over. | Paragraph H, lines 4 and 5. |
| 4 | E | it has been planted all around this hot humid tropical belt – from South America and the Caribbean to West Africa, East Asia, and New Guinea and Vanuatu in the Pacific. | Paragraph
E,line 4 |
| 5 | H | One such disease, witches broom, devastated the cacao plantations in the Bahia region of Brazil. | Paragraph H, line 1 |
| 6 | C | The Maya and Aztecs revered this chocolate, which they Frothed up with water and spices to make bracing concoctions | Paragraph C,lines 1 and 2. |
| 7 | D | In the last 200 years, the bean has been thoroughly democratized – transformed from an elite drink into ubiquitous candy bars, cocoa powders and confections. | Paragraph D,line 1. |
| 8 | F | With luck, groves like this may produce annual yields of 50 to 60 pods per tree for 25 to 30 years. | Paragraph F line 5 |
| 9 | C | In 1753, the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus gave the cacao tree genus the name Theobroma. which means ‘food of the gods’, | Paragraph C,last line. |
| 10 | disease | These fungi and other diseases spoil more than a quarter of the world’s yearly harvest and can devastate entire cacao-growing regions. | Paragraph G,line 5 |
| 11 | (local) middlemen | Most are at the mercy of local middlemen who buy the beans then sell them for a much higher price to the chocolate manufacturers. | Paragraph I,line 6 |
| 12 | sustainable | Some companies have realized that they need to work more closely with the farmers to ensure that sustainable farming practices are used | Paragraph I,line 11 |
| 13 | profits | They also need to empower the farmers by guaranteeing them a higher price for their beans so that they will be encouraged to grow cacao and can maintain their way of life. | Paragraph I,last line |
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