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Coffee is the world’s second most valuable market commodity after petroleum.
U.S. consumers drink 1 of the beans traded in the global market. Coffee is a significant
source of foreign exchange for many Latin American countries and has played a major role in
the political histories of nations 2 Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, and Brazil. It was
traditionally developed as a colonial cash crop, 3 by serfs or wage laborers on large
plantations, and then exported to imperial countries. In its natural shaded habitat, coffee is a
sustainable crop. In the mid-20th century, 4 ,with the advent of the Green Revolution—
an agribusiness-oriented scheme that pressed high technology on traditional farmers—different
kinds of high-yielding coffee were pursued. In the 1970s, a well-known organization gave
over $ 80 million to coffee plantations in Latin America to “ modernize” — to strip coffee
of shaded trees and purchase chemical pesticides and fertilizers. This 5 to severe
environmental problems, including contamination of air and water through pesticide poisoning. 【題組】3. (A) planting and harvesting (B) planted and harvested
(C) to plant and harvest (D) been planted and harvested
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