题目内容
Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.
People have been eating and drinking coffee for t________ of years. Yes, eating! The Ethiopians d________ coffee around 600 years ago. They used coffee beans and animal fat as food on long journeys across Africa. The Arabs were the f________ to drink coffee. They found it helped them stay awake while praying at night.
Around 1,600 people in Europe began to drink coffee. One Dutch farmer decided to g________ his own coffee. He started a plantation on the island of Java in Indonesia. Soon farmers in Central and South America were doing the s________. Today, most of the world's coffee still comes from Africa, Central and South America and Indonesia.
Medical studies say that three cups of coffee a day is OK. H________, some people want to stop completely. Doctors say they should stop s________. They should drink fewer cups of coffee each day for a week. People who stop too fast often get terrible headaches as a result.