Read the passage about chocolate and choose the best answer for each question.
There are 8 questions.
Many of us love to eat a good piece of chocolate now and again. Unfortunately, chocolate is expected to
become more expensive in the next few years. There are not enough cocoa trees in the world right now to
meet the demand for chocolate.
As economies in countries like China become stronger, more people are buying and eating chocolate. This
makes the price of chocolate go up. Even if Central and South American cocoa bean farmers planted more
cocoa trees today, the trees would not be ready to produce cocoa beans for ten years.
Some people might stop buying chocolate if it gets too expensive. Others like Greg Johnson
who just bought boxes of chocolate for all his employees, will not stop even if the price rises.
"I will continue to buy chocolate. I might just buy smaller boxes. Chocolate is a wonderful gift
because almost everyone smiles when they get a box of chocolates," he said outside of a
Godiva chocolate store.
Big chocolate companies will either raise the cost of a chocolate bar or make the candy bars
a bit smaller for the same price.
Either way, if you are a chocolate fan like me, you might want to buy now before the prices rise.
What is the article mainly about?
Q The current market for chocolate
Q The market for chocolate in China
Q The ways cocoa is processed to make chocolate
Q The reasons chocolate is more and more popular
What does the author think that some chocolate companies will do in the future?
Q Make more candy bars
Q Make smaller chocolate bars
Q Make other types of candy
Q Make new contracts with cocoa farmers
Which statement about cocoa farming does the author suggest is true?
Q It requires a strong economy for support.
Q It is a difficult kind of agriculture.
Q It is very highly paid.
Q It takes place only in certain parts of the world.
What does the author think that some chocolate companies will do in the future?
Q Make more candy bars
Q Make smaller chocolate bars
Q Make other types of candy
Q Make new contracts with cocoa farmers
The author suggests that the farmers selling cocoa to chocolate makers today must have
Q increased their profits a lot over the past five years.
Q planted their cocoa plants more than nine years ago.
Q made recent strong connections to China.
Q experienced a sudden increase in demand for cocoa beans.
What will the author of the article probably do soon?
Q Stop buying chocolate for a gift
Q Buy a lot of chocolate before it becomes more expensive
Q Stop eating chocolate
Q Do further research on the chocolate industry
Why will Greg Johnson continue to buy chocolates?
Q He loves chocolate for himself.
Q He has a lot of money to spend.
Q He thinks chocolate makes many people feel happy.
Q He thinks chocolate is not an expensive gift.
Why does the author believe that the price of chocolate is likely to increase in the future?
Q The supply of chocolate will be smaller than the demand for it.
Q Cocoa beans are difficult to grow.
Q Chocolate manufacturers will enter new markets around the world.
Q There will be a bigger demand for luxury foods.
What does the author say about chocolate and countries like China?
Q These countries will need to plant more cocoa trees.
Q Their large populations buy chocolate because it is a cheap snack.
Q When countries become richer, they start to eat more chocolate.
Q Many countries like China should stop eating so much chocolate.
Which statement about cocoa farming does the author suggest is true?
Q It requires a strong economy for support.
Q It is a difficult kind of agriculture.
Q It is very highly paid.
Q It takes place only in certain parts of the world.
