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ACTIVE SKILLS FOR READING: UNIT 1 CHAPTER 1
• Read the sentences and choose words from the table that fit the meaning of the sentences. Write the word in the    blank box.
• Hit the Tab key. A word in green text is correct. Red is incorrect.
• After two incorrect tries, type the question mark in the blank and hit enter.

flavored    originally   voyage    century   beans   discovered   currency   chocolate

1. Cocoa beans were found in South America.

2. Cacao seeds are also called cocoa .
3. The early Mayans and Aztecs drinks made from cacao with chili peppers and other spices.

4. On his fourth across the Atlantic, Christopher Columbus landed on the coast of Honduras in Central America.

5. Columbus that the native people were using cocoa beans as .

6. Hernando Cortez took back to Spain in the sixteenth century.

spread     provides     slaves     popularity     plantations     ingredients      cultivated

7. The Spanish added like sugar and vanilla to make chocolate sweet.

8. In the seventeenth century, the of chocolate to France and across Europe and the Americas.
9. Slaves were brought from Africa to the Americas to work on cocoa .

10. Later, the cacao tree was in Africa, the country which now most of the world's cocoa beans.