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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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