All around the world, everyone has to eat. But people in different areas eat different things. Sometimes, people use the same ingredients  27 cook them differently.

What people eat has something to do with where they live. People look at the local  28 to decide what to grow in the fields. For example, the  29 weather near the North Pole(北极) means that 30 plants can grow there. Therefore, the local people, the Inuit, live only by fishing and  31 animals.

In Northern China, corn and wheat(小麦) grow well in the dry weather. So the local people make steamed bread(馒头) and noodles from 32 or wheat. However, it is different in the  33 . There, lots of rain and land near the lakes and rivers mean that people can grow and eat rice.

The land and weather in Central America is  34 for growing cocoa trees. Chocolate is made from the seeds(种子) in the fruit of these trees. Almost every home in Central America has its own way of 35 chocolate. Chocolate has become a 36 that people cannot live without.

1.

A and

B but

C or

D

解析：选B。B。考查行文逻辑。上文提到相同的食材，下文说制作方法又不同，所以这里是转折关系。故选B。

2.

A weather

B animals

C plants

D

解析：选A。A。复现信息。后文提到天气，故选A。

3.

A warm

B hot

C cold

D

解析：选C。C。后文提到北极附近，气候应该寒冷。故选C。

4.

A few

B a few

C quite a few

D

解析：选A。A。根据语义，天气寒冷，所以没有农作物生长。a few 和quite a few都表示肯定。只有few表示没有，故选A。

5.

A training

B feeding

C catching

D

解析：选C。C。他们靠捕鱼和狩猎为生。故选C。

6.

A rice

B chocolate

C corn

D

解析：选C。C。原词复现。上文提到北方种植小麦和玉米，故馒头由小麦玉米制成。故选C。

7.

A north

B south

C northwest

D

解析：选B。B。考语义，上文提到北方。However，进行转折，故选择南方。

8.

A good

B bad

C difficult

D

解析：选A。A。根据语义，下文提到盛产巧克力，所以中美气候有利于coco树生长。

9.

A picking

B planting

C making

D

解析：选C。C。考查语义，A．picking 采摘 B．planting种植；C．making制作。巧克力是由coco种子制作而成，本身不是植物。

10.

A drink

B food

C tree

D

解析：选B。B。考查名词。巧克力是食物。故选。