Coffee, a hot beverage favored by people in
different regions, is said to have been (1)______ (1)______
in Ethiopia. It was found by a man named Kaldi, a
goat (2)______. When he was taking his goats (2)______
through the mountains, they stopped to graze the
plants nearby. Suddenly, some of them became
very excited, jumping up and down. Such strange
(3)______was confusing to Kaldi but by taking (3)______
the same plants, he found the answer--their excitement
was related to the (4)______beans they (4)______
had eaten. To prove his finding, he took some
beans back and asked the villagers to eat. They,
too, felt the (5)______effect. (5)______
Ever since then, people would take some beans
when they were in the mountains and wanted to be
more (6)______Later they learned to (6)______
(7)______the beans by picking and drying (7)______
them. However, the dried ones were too hard to
eat, (8)______people started to crush them and (8)______
then boil them in water.
Since the bean was found in the province called
Kaffa, it got the name "Kaffa" and later "coffee".
The (9)______of coffee drinking spread to the (9)______
Arab countries through the Arab travelers and then
through both travelers and (10)______to other (10)______
regions such as Europe, North America and Asia.
Today, it became a popular hot drink around the
world.