COMPREHENSION GRADE 3

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being moulded. Finally, it is molded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

1. Cacao trees grow in which part of the world?

• a. Asia and the United States

• b. Central and South America, Africa and Asia

• c. South America and Mexico

• d. Europe and Africa

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being molded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

2. Where does chocolate come from?

• a. Pinto beans

• b. Butter beans

• c. Lima beans

• d. Cocoa beans

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being molded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

3. How are these beans dried?

• a. By boiling in a pan

• b. By roasting in a dryer

• c. By baking in the sun

• d. By baking in an oven

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being moulded. Finally, it is molded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

4. The machines that ground the chocolate bean are called?

• a. grinding machine

• b. grinding sword

• c. heavy steel plates

• d. heavy steel plastics

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being molded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

5. What is unsweetened chocolate?

• a. It is another name for milk chocolate.

• b. It is another name for cocoa.

• c. It is another name for bitter chocolate.

• d. It is another name for a candy bar.

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being molded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

6. The oil pressed out from cocoa bean is called________________

• a. cocoa powder

• b. cocoa butter

• c. shea butter

• d. cocoa pudding

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being molded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

7. A milk chocolate candy bar needs to contain____________________

• a. Sugar and cocoa butter

• b. Sugar and milk

• c. Sugar, vanilla and cocoa butter

• d. Sugar, vanilla, cocoa butter and milk

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being moulded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

8. How is the chocolate that candy bar makers buy sold to them?

• a. As processed milk chocolate

• b. As cocoa powder

• c. As cocoa butter

• d. As cocoa beans

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being moulded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

9. The chocolates are moulded into how many bars?

• a. ten

• b. two

• c. three

• d. five

Read each passage. Then answer each question carefully by choosing the best answer.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Chocolate that we eat starts with cacao trees, also called cocoa trees. Cacao trees grow in a warm climate like Central and South America, Africa or parts of Asia. This tree produces a seed pod and cocoa beans are the seeds inside the pod. Cocoa beans eventually become chocolate. At the chocolate factory, the beans are cleaned and then they are roasted for up to two hours in large rotating drums. The cocoa beans tumble in these drums like clothes in a clothes dryer. As they dry, the beans turn to a rich brown colour. After roasting, the shell of the cocoa bean is removed and the inside of the cocoa beans are then ground by heavy steel plates. This grinding process forms a chocolate liquid.

When chocolate liquid is moulded and cooled, the product is called unsweetened or bitter chocolate. Sometimes the chocolate liquid is made into dry cocoa powder. When cocoa is made, oil from the cocoa bean is pressed out and is known as cocoa butter. Add sugar, cocoa butter, and vanilla flavouring to unsweetened chocolate and you have a chocolate candy. If you also add milk, the product is milk chocolate.

Next, the milk chocolate mixture goes through heating and cooling cycles before being molded. Finally, it is moulded into milk chocolate candy bars or it is made into ten-pound blocks of chocolate that are sold to other candy bar manufacturers.

10. Another title that best fits this passage is?

• a. How chocolates are processed

  
  

• b. Moulding

• c. Cocoa butter mixing

• d. Cocoa beans production