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IV. Reading Comprehension (16%)    Coffee is by far more fun to drink than it is to cultivate. After planting a coffee tree, four to five years must pass before a crop can be picked. Once a crop is ripe, harvesting is very labor-intensive. Since fruit on the same branch of a coffee tree ripens at different times, it must be picked by hand, and one tree will require several visits by the pickers.    A single, healthy coffee plant produces only 2kg of coffee beans per year. After roasting, this represents about 1.6 kg of coffee or enough for about 230 cups of coffee. Supporting the world’s coffee habit requires a lot of trees. Brazil, well known for its coffee, has over 3 billion trees!    It may surprise you that coffee beans aren’t the “beans” at all. They’re the seeds of the coffee fruit, or cherry. These coffee cherries—rich, dark red, almost black, either dried in the sun for two or three weeks or fermented in tanks to remove the pulp. Machines then remove the skin from the beans. The process results in green coffee beans. These beans are then ready to be roasted to perfection. Roasting time has a dramatic effect on the final cup flavor. Beans roast at 200 degrees Celsius from 8 to 15 minutes, depending on the roast you desire. The darker the bean, the stronger the flavor. The coffee is then either vacuum-packed or granulized into instant coffee.
66. It can be inferred from the passage that in a good year, the total production of coffee beans in Brazil is ________ kg.
(A) 690 billion
(B) 3 billion
(C) 6 billion
(D) 3.2 billion

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難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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