(三)For hundreds of years, chocolate has been an important part ofour food culture as a snack and a drink. Have you ever thoughtabout its history? Where did it come from? Who found it? Hernan Cortes was given a drink called “xocolatl” by thepeople in what is now called Mexico. He wasn’t the first to takecocoa beans to Europe but he saw that they could be very usefulin his home country. In 1528, he began shipping cocoa beans toSpain for chocolate. It quickly became a favorite of the rich andpowerful and in the 1600s the love of chocolate spread to theUK, France, and other places in Europe. As the years passed,people sold more chocolate inside the country and the prices ofchocolate fell. Chocolate was not only for the rich anymore.  In the 1840s and 1850s, a surprising thing happened. A fewcompanies figured out how to make the drink chocolate into asolid bar of chocolate. Adding different level of sugar and milkmade dark chocolates or milk chocolates. In 1879, people addedcocoa butter to make the chocolate softer and helped it melt inyour mouth. *** cocoa bean 可可豆 spread 蔓延 company 公司figure out 想出 solid 固體的 bar 棒狀物 level 程度melt 融化 ***
38. Which country did Cortes first ship cocoa beans to?
(A) The UK.
(B) Mexico.
(C) France.
(D) Spain.