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Practice Writing: Summarize Written Text
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Cocoa R1
During the time of the Aztecs, cocoa was mainly used as a beverage. Wines and drinks were made from white pulp around the seeds of the cocoa pod. The beans themselves were used to make hot or cold chocolate drinks. Both the Maya and the Aztec secular drinks used roasted cocoa beans, a foaming agent (sugar), toasted corn and water. Vanilla and/or chilli were also used as an ingredient in the drinks. Cocoa beans were also used as a currency and as a tribute (tax) from peoples ruled by Aztecs. The oily layer floating in the chocolate drink (cocoa butter) was used to protect the skin against the sun.
The Aztecs would later take the helm of expanding the cocoa tree’s offering by extracting its sweetness and transforming it into a thick, rich beverage; the sweet white pulp that encompasses the seeds were extracted for wines and other drinks while the beans themselves were shelled to make both hot and cold chocolate drinks.
For the Aztecs cocoa had a religious significance. Cocoa was believed to be of divine origin: the cocoa tree was a bridge between earth and heaven. Fluman sacrifices to propitiate God or sun were first sanctified by giving him chocolate. Cocoa beans were given to priest's assistants at children's coming of age ceremonies. During marriage ceremonies, the couple drank a symbolic cup of chocolate and exchanged cocoa beans. Aztecs believed that drinking chocolate gave mortals some of Quetzalcoatl's (God of learning and the wind) wisdom.
The Aztecs would later take the helm of expanding the cocoa tree’s offering by extracting its sweetness and transforming it into a thick, rich beverage; the sweet white pulp that encompasses the seeds were extracted for wines and other drinks while the beans themselves were shelled to make both hot and cold chocolate drinks.
For the Aztecs cocoa had a religious significance. Cocoa was believed to be of divine origin: the cocoa tree was a bridge between earth and heaven. Fluman sacrifices to propitiate God or sun were first sanctified by giving him chocolate. Cocoa beans were given to priest's assistants at children's coming of age ceremonies. During marriage ceremonies, the couple drank a symbolic cup of chocolate and exchanged cocoa beans. Aztecs believed that drinking chocolate gave mortals some of Quetzalcoatl's (God of learning and the wind) wisdom.
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Sample Answer 1
Wines and drinks were prepared from white pulp around the seeds of the cocoa pod, and the Aztecs would later take the helm of expanding the cocoa tree's offering by extracting its sweetness and transforming it into a thick, rich beverage; the sweet white pulp that encompasses the seeds were extracted for wines and other drinks while the beans themselves were shelled to make both hot and cold chocolate drinks.
Sample Answer 2
Cocoa was mainly used as a beverage, and the beans were used to make chocolate drinks, and it also had an important role because Aztecs used it as a currency, a tribute tax, skin protection against the sun and for a religious significance because people believed that drinking chocolate gave mortals and wisdom.
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Wines and drinks were
madeprepared from white pulp around the seeds of the cocoa pod, and the Aztecs would later take the helm of expanding the cocoa tree's offering by extracting its sweetness and transforming it into a thick, rich beverage; the sweet white pulp that encompasses the seeds were extracted for wines and other drinks while the beans themselves were shelled to make both hot and cold chocolate drinks.
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