Maybe many people in the world can not believe this,but the world's most expensive coffee is pretty terrible. Black Ivory coffee is made from beans which are often eaten and digested (消化) by Thai elephants,and the price of it is at $ 1,100 per kilogram. Isn’t it very funny?

   As we all know elephants in Thailand are very good at painting,but we don't know they also make great coffee at all. People can enjoy the rare (稀有 的) Black Ivory at only four resorts (度假村) around the world,and there are three in the Maldives and only one in Thailand. However,people in the special Anantara Resorts come up with an unusual idea of making coffee from elephant-digested beans. Why do they use this way to make the great coffee?

   It seems like a very terrible and boring idea,but in fact this idea is correctly right in theory (理論) . According to the research,enzymes (酶類) in the elephant's stomach are able to break down the proteins (蛋白質(zhì)) in the coffee beans,and because proteins are one of the main ingredients of its bitterness (苦 味) ，less protein means less of the bitterness.

1. make the world's most expensive coffee.

   A. The special beans

   B. Elephant-digested beans

   C. The large animals

   D. The nice plants

2. The price of Black Ivory coffee is .

   A. low

   B. high

   C. $1,011 per kilogram

   D. $110 per kilogram

3. People can enjoy Black Ivory in resorts in the Maldives.

   A. one   B. two

   C. three   D. four

4. The way of making Black Ivory coffee is in theory.

   A. right   B. terrible

   C. boring   D. special

5. According to the passage, can break down the proteins in the coffee beans.

   A. many modem machines

   B. some bitterness

   C. people in the special Anantara Resorts

   D. enzymes in the elephant's stomach

1. B 2. B 3. C 4. A 5. D

你能相信嗎？世上最昂貴的咖啡是來自大象的糞便。 

1. B細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段的“Black Ivory coffee is made from beans which are often eaten and digested by Thai elephants.可知，世上最昂貴的咖啡是被大象消化掉 的咖啡豆制作出來的。

2. B推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一•段的“…and the price of it is at $ 1.100 per kilogram. ”可知，世上最昂貴的咖啡的銷售 價(jià)格是每公斤1 100美元，故C、D項(xiàng)表述錯(cuò)誤，由此可 推知價(jià)格是很高的，故選B項(xiàng)。

3. C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的“People can enjoy the rare Black Ivory. . . , and there are three in the Maldives and only one in Thailand.可知，在馬爾代夫有三個(gè)度假 村，在那里人們可以享受到Black Ivory。

4. A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段的“…but in fact this idea is correctly right in theory.”可知，被大象消化掉的咖啡豆 制作成咖啡這種想法在理論上是正確的。

5. D細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章的最后一段的“...enzymes in the elephant's stomach are able to break down the proteins in the coffee beans.可知，大象胃里的酶類能夠分解 咖啡豆中的蛋白質(zhì)。

unusual adj.不尋常的 break down 分解 be able to有能力做某事

題目來源：一本英語(yǔ)閱讀理解與完形填空150篇中考 > TEST3

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