Cùng tham IELTS Academic Reading Sample 173 để các bạn ôn tập lại các kiến thức đã học, đánh giá năng lực làm bài của mình cũng như làm quen với cấu trúc đề thi để chuẩn bị kì thi được tốt hơn với số điểm cao như mong muốn. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | THE STORY OF COFFEE A Coffee was first discovered in Eastern Africa in an area we know today as Ethiopia. A popular legend refers to a goat herder by the name of Kaldi who observed his goats acting unusually friskily after eating berries from a bush. Curious about this phenomenon Kaldi tried eating the berries himself. He found that these berries gave him renewed energy. B The news of this energy laden fruit quickly moved throughout the region. Coffee berries were transported from Ethiopia to the Arabian Peninsula and were first cultivated in what today is the country of Yemen. Coffee remained a secret in Arabia before spreading to Turkey and then to the European continent by means of Venetian trade merchants. C Coffee was first eaten as a food though later people in Arabia would make a drink out of boiling the beans for its narcotic effects and medicinal value. Coffee for a time was known as Arabian wine to Muslims who were banned from alcohol by Islam. It was not until after coffee had been eaten as a food product a wine and a medicine that it was discovered probably by complete accident in Turkey that by roasting the beans a delicious drink could be made. The roasted beans were first crushed and then boiled in water creating a crude version of the beverage we enjoy today. The first coffee houses were opened in Europe in the 17th Century and in 1675 the Viennese established the habit of refining the brew by filtering out the grounds sweetening it and adding a dash of milk. D If you were to explore the planet for coffee you would find about 60 species of coffee plants growing wild in Africa Malaysia and other regions. But only about ten of them are actually cultivated. Of these ten two species are responsible for almost all the coffee produced in the world Coffea Arabica and Coffea Canephora usually known as Robusta . Because of ecological differences existing among the various coffee producing countries both types have undergone many mutations and now exist in .
