V. Choose the word (A, B, C or D) that best fits the blank space in the following passage. (23-28)
Easter eggs will be more _________(23) this year because of climate change. Extreme weather is making cocoa more _________(24) to grow. Cocoa beans are used _________(25) chocolate. Most of the world's cocoa beans come from West Africa. Heatwaves and heavy rains have cut cocoa bean harvests. Reuters said cocoa prices have more than doubled in the past year. A climate analyst said cocoa farmers were, "struggling in the face of both extreme heat _________(26) rainfall".
People give chocolate eggs _________(27) Easter. This celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. Chocolate eggs first _________(28) in France in 1725. In 1873, an English chocolate company made the first hollow chocolate egg. It was like the ones we can buy today. Wikipedia says: "In Western cultures, the giving of chocolate eggs is now commonplace." However, climate analysts say we need to cut fossil fuel emissions to have cocoa and chocolate.
