Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word that best fits each of the numbered blanks from 43 to 50.

Chocolate

When the Spanish explorer Cortez reached Mexico in the sixteenth century, he found the people there using a drink they called chocolate. It tasted quite (43) __________because it had pepper in it.

To (44) __________ it taste better, the Spanish added sugar to it. When chocolate first came to Europe in the seventeenth century, people started to drink it with milk, (45) __________ of water. Nowadays, tonnes of chocolate and cocoa are (46) __________to factories, where they are turned (47) __________ many popular sweets and cakes.

(48) __________chocolate and cocoa come from the fruit of the cacao tree. Cacao trees can only be grown in hot countries, as they need a warm climate. Cacao is an American plant, (49) __________still grows wild in the northern part of South America. Countries in Central and South America were the first to grow it, (50) __________ today Africa supplies the world with the most chocolate.