III. Cloze Test: Choose the best answer for each missing word or phrase in the passages.
Beer is nearly as old as recorded history. Man is believed to 24 beer at about the same time 25
learned to make bread. Archaeological evidence indicates that beer 26 produced in Mesopotamia
around 6000 B. C. In the earliest 27 civilization, ancient Sumer in the near East, about forty percent of
the grain crop went to make beer, and 28 was apparently also used for currency by the local nobility.
Beer, bread, and onions probably formed the basic diet of the ancient Egyptian people, and some of their
beer had an alcoholic content of up to twelve percent. The Greeks carried the art of brewing from Egypt into
Europe, and the Romans learned about beer drinking during 29 conquest of Greece. Brewing rapidly
took hold in northern and Western Europe where grape-growing was impractical because of the weather.
【題組】28.
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