The Story of Coffee Reading Answers
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The Story of Coffee
You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 28-40, which are based on the Reading Passage below.
Find the reading passage with questions in the Story of Coffee PDF here.
Answers
The answers with explanations are given below
Question Number | Answers | Keywords | Location of Keywords |
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28. | viii | Coffee berries were transported from Ethiopia to the Arabian Peninsula, spreading to Turkey and then to the European continent | Paragraph B |
29. | ix | Coffee was first eaten as food by roasting the beans, a delicious drink could be made. | Paragraph C |
30. | vi | About 60 species of coffee plants growing wild in Africa, Malaysia, and other regions. | Paragraph D |
31. | xi | One reaches a height of around four metres. This makes the harvest and flowering easier, and cultivation more economical. | Paragraph E |
32. | i | The climate needs to be hot-wet or hot temperate, with frequent rains and temperatures varying from 15 to 25 C. | Paragraph F |
33. | iii | The pulped beans then rest, covered in pure rainwater to ferment overnight, the wet beans are hand-distributed upon the drying floor to be sun-dried. | Paragraph G |
34. | epicarp | The berry is coated with a thin, red film (epicarp) | Paragraph E, Lines 6-7 |
35. | mesocarp | Containing a white, sugary mucilaginous flesh (mesocarp). | Paragraph E, Lines 7-8 |
36. | endocarp | Coated with a kind of, golden yellow parchment, (endocarp) | Paragraph E, Lines 10-11 |
37. | wet-milled | Cherry coffee can be pulped (or wet-milled) | Paragraph G, Lines 6-7 |
38. | overnight | covered in pure rainwater to ferment overnight. | Paragraph G, Lines 7-8 |
39. | raked (many times) | To make sure they dry evenly, the beans need to be raked many times | Paragraph G, Lines 10-11 |
40. | Customers’ specifications | Roasted according to the customers’ specifications | Paragraph G, Last 2 lines |
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