CAE Use of English Part 2

The Wondrous World of Coffee

A cup of coffee, like any (1) ... experience, can be enriched by selection and consciousness.

"No beans about it," the best coffee decisions (2) ... the ones most pleasant to one's own palate - the selection of one's coffee is a matter of personal preference.

Choosing coffee beans can also be a perplexing experience, (3) ... there is a huge range of coffee types and beans blends from all around the world.

The final flavour and quality involves many complex factors, beginning with the coffee seed, the beans' botanics, a wide variety of soil and climate conditions, cultivation altitudes, and the care (4) ... in harvesting the beans.

Raw green coffee beans are then subjected (5) ... many influencing factors, including various processing, production, roasting, blending and brewing methods.

On a global note, (6) ... many species and varieties of coffee trees from different areas of the world also offer their own distinctive flavours.

There are more than forty-five coffee-exporting countries - all of (7) ... use different classification systems - that supply the world with coffee beans, in sizes ranging over sixty known species of coffee plants. No wonder coffee can involve a puzzling java jargon!

Fortunately, the world's coffee nomenclature, from mountain to market, can be classified (8) ... simple categories. This briefly outlines the basics of bean botanics, coffee cultivation and processing, and global classifications used by the coffee trade and coffee-producing countries.