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Fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的单词）

We think of chocolate as something sweet. However, long time ago, people thought of chocolate as something very bitter. For us, chocolate is a candy, but o1. it was a medicine. Today, chocolate can be a hot drink, a frozen, dessert, or just a snack. Sometimes it’s an ingredient in the main course of a meal. Mexicans make a hot chocolate sauce c2. mole and pour it over chicken. The Mexicans also eat chocolate with spices like chili peppers.

Chocolate is a p3. of the tropical cacao tree. Cacao beans taste so bitter that even monkeys say “ugh!” and run away. The word chocolate comes from a Mayan: word. The Mayas were an a4. people who once lived in Mexico. They valued the cacao tree. Some of the Mayas used cacao beans. f5. money, while others ground them to make a bitter drink.

When the Spaniards came to Mexico in the 16th century, they started drinking cacao, too. Because the drink was strong and bitter, they thought it was a medicine. When the Spaniards took the drink back to Europe, people discovered that sugar removed the bitter t6. of cacao. Wealthy Spaniards heated the sweet drink and thought that it was good for their health. In the 19th century, an English company made the first solid block of sweetened chocolate. Now people could both drink and eat chocolate. Later, a Swiss company mixed milk and chocolate together. People liked the taste of milk chocolate even better. (248 words)