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fe GYAN BHARATI SCHOOL HOLIDAY HOMEWORK: 2021 CLASS MA SUBJECT: ENGLISH 1 Read the comprehension passage below and answer the questions that follow: THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE d cacao with vanilla, black pepper and hon The Artecs made a special drink from cacao beans. They m Ine¥ Poured the drink from height so it had foam The drink wasn't very sweet, and the Aztecs called it Cacahue acahuatl, Some people say that the Aztec king Moctezur OF “bitter water”. Only the king and the nobles drank W drank $0 cups of Cacahuatl day When Hernan Cortés came to Mexico, Moctezuma gave him a Golden cup full of this precious drink i range dein Cortés took three chests of cacao beans back to Spain with him in 1528. At first, nobody liked the 90 beans and this drink bacame popular. The Spaniards tried t Someone added hot water and sugar to the keep the recipe secret, but slowly it spread across Europe By the 1700s, there were chocolate shops in many European cities. Chocolate was very expensive. Only ri People could buy it. In the early 1800s, a doctor in England invented a new chocolate recipe. He added mi instead of water to the mixture of sugar and cacao. Children started drinking hot chocolate, and it became eve more popular The next step in the transformation of the cacao bean happened in Holland. in 1828, Conrad van Houten mac €0c0a butter and cocoa powder from the beans. This was the start of solid chocolate. With this new method company called Fry's of England made the first chocolate bar in 1847. Then in 1876, the Swiss company Nest added milk to the recipe and made the first milk chocolate bar At first, chocolate bars were very expensive, but then, in 1894, Hershey s made the first cheap chocolate ba Other chocolate companies did the same, and soon ordinay people were buying chocolate in stores all over th world. On the basis of the above passage, answer the following question: 1. What did the Aztecs mix with cacao? om 2. What was yaa the rink called? tw don tolled seornhua wr bitte wile 3. Was the drink sweet? The dink ios ui 4. Who did Moctezuma Ii meet? Mostegu ma, mut herman covilen 5. How many chests did Hernan Cortés take to Spain? Heroneun Coutts, tobe § hush, lo 6. What did the Spaniards add to the recipe? They adden hot wnt and supe uh 7. What did an England doctor add to the recipe? Heodded oti inihod. of wolin in ib 8. When was the first milk chocolate bar made? Th_18%6 _, ithe inst oil, chocalil, tums none, 9. Were the first chocolate bars expensive? Se=eunoheon—citien..In_england, thin, wos choenlois bors — esebarrsir 10. Who made the first cheap chocolate bar? Hersheys mode the fins chen checalat, bast 2. Put the words in each sentence in the correct order with the correct punctuation mark after each sentence: HRB her visited yesterday grandma Mona = Mona visited her grandma yesterday 1) bought for mother necklace my birthday | a her 2) are we with week going next stay friends to 3) were they TV watching 4) always to they Saturday go on football play Summer Vacatior id the words of the summer break, in the word-search puzzle below:

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