Q1) Write a summary of the passage and suggest a suitable title. (15 marks)
Chocolate. There are few foods that people feel as passionate about – a passion that goes
beyond a love for the “sweetness” of most candies or desserts: after all, few people crave
caramel, whipped cream, or bubble gum. Chocolate is, well, different. For the true chocoholic,
just thinking about chocolate can evoke a pleasurable response.
Two years ago, my wife and I travelled to the Amazon. On one of our expeditions, our guide
pointed out a cacao tree growing wild in the jungle. I had never seen one before.
Looking strangely alien, dozens of yellow-green pods hung from the trunk and stems of the
tree. Our guide picked one of the hand-sized fruits, stripped off the rippled outer layer with his
knife, and handed us chunks of the fibrous white pulp inside – the fruit of the cacao tree. Two
local children who had followed us into the fo
Answers
Title: Cocoa plant
Summary
People have different cravings for sweets, as some are attracted to candies, creams and desserts. Some are chocoholics that are even intrigued by the thinking of chocolate. I travelled to amazon with my wife two years ago. During which, our guide showed the coco tree that I had never seen before. The tree was like an alien with dozens of yellow pods hanging downward. The fruit of coco was white inside when the guide peeled the fruit with knife.
The suitable title can be “Fruit of desire and passion-chocolate”.
Chocolate is a very sweet and tasty food. It is a pleasure to think about chocolate if you love eating chocolates.
There are cacao trees in Amazon on which many yellow-green pods with white pulp grow.
These fruits ripen and are taken to factories to extract the essence from which chocolates is made.