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.



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 arc 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 tile most chocolate.