PETER IS COMING OVER TO SUSAN'S HOUSE

Câu 29 (TH):

It's Sunday today. Peter is coming over to Susan's house.

Peter: "Do you mind if I put the television on?" - Susan: "_____________."

A.

It's no matter to me

B.

Yes, the television is on

C.

Not at all

D.

Not mention it

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate

the correct answer to each of the questions.

What is commonly called pepper in reality comes from two very different families of plants.

Black and white pepper both come from the fruit of the Piper nigrum, a vine with fruits called

peppercorns. The peppercorns

turn

from green to red as they ripen and finally blacken as they

dry out. The dried-out peppercorns are ground to obtain black pepper. White pepper, which has

a more subtle flavour than black pepper, comes from the same peppercorns as black pepper. To

obtain white pepper, the outer hull of the peppercorn, the pericarp, is removed before the

peppercorn is ground. Red and green pepper, on the other hand, come from a completely

different family from black and white pepper. Red and green peppers are from the genus

Capsicum. Plants of this type generally have tiny white flowers and fruit which can be any of a

number of colours, shapes and sizes. These peppers range in flavour from very mild and sweet

to the most incredibly burning taste imaginable. Bell peppers are the mildest, while habanros

are the most burning.

Christopher Columbus is responsible for the present-day confusion over what pepper is. The

Piper nigrum variety of pepper was highly valued for centuries, and high demand for pepper by

Europeans was a major cause of the fifteen-century

push

to locate ocean routes to the spice-

growing regions of Asia. When Columbus arrived in the New World in 1492, he was

particularly interested in finding black pepper because of the high price it would command in

Europe. Columbus came across plants from the Capsicum family in use among people of the

New World, and he incorrectly identified

them

as relatives of black pepper. Columbus

introduced the spicy Capsicum chili peppers to Europeans on his return from the 1492 voyage,

and traders later spread them to Asia and Africa. These Capsicum peppers have continued to be

called peppers in spite of the fact that they are not related to the black and white pepper of the

Piper nigrum family.