LISTENING

In this section you will hear a text twice. Read True/False statements. Listen to the
text, decide which statements are true and which are false. Mark numbers 1- 12 on
your Answer Sheet as T or F.

1. The fact is potatoes have played a much more significant role in our history than
just that of the dietary staple.
2. 10,000 years ago in South America, high atop the Andes, ancient Greeks were the
first to cultivate the potato.
3. Containing high levels of proteins and carbohydrates, as well as essential fats,
vitamins and minerals, cabbages were the perfect food source to fuel a large
Greek working class.
4. Spanish sailors  returning from the Andes first brought potatoes to Europe.
5. Europeans eagerly started eating potatoes.
6. Instead of consuming them, they used potatoes as decorative garden plants.
7. More than 500 years would pass before the potato caught on as a major food
source throughout Europe.
8. Beginning around 1750, and thanks to potato European peasants no longer found
themselves at the mercy of the regularly occurring grain famines of the time.
9. As a result, the West came to its place of world dominion because of availability
of inexpensive and nutritious potatoes.
10. After the Irish adopted the potato, their population dramatically increased, as did
their dependence on the tuber as a major food staple.
11. The Irish Potato Famine was the end for the potato.
12.In the end, the Industrial Revolution can all be at least partially attributed to the
simple spud from the Peruvian hilltops.
KEYS:

1. T
2. F
3. F
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. T
9. T
10.T
11.F
12.T