(A)
People have been eating and drinking coffee for thousands of years.Yes,eating!The Ethiopians discovered coffee around 600 years ago.They usedcoffee beans and animal fat as food onlong journeys across Africa. The Arabs were the first to drink coffee.They found it helped them stay awake while praying at night.
Around 1600,people in Europe began to drinkcoffee. One Dutch farmer decided to grow his own coffee.He started a plantation on the island of Java in Indonesia. Soon farmers in Central and South America were doing the same. Today,most of the world's coffee still comes from Africa,Central and S outh America,and Indonesica.
Medical studies say that three cups of coffee a day is OK.However,some people want to stop completely. Doctors say they should stop slowly.They should drink fewer cups of coffee each day for a week. People who stop too fast often get terrible headaches as a result.
(B)
The home computers industry has been growing rapidly in the United States for the last ten years.Computers used to be large,expensive machines that were very difficult to use.But scientists and technicians have been making them smaller andcheaper while at the same time they have been made easier to use.As a result,their popularity has been increasing as more people have been buying computers for their homes and businesses.
Computers have been designed to store information and compute compute complex problems.Some have voices that speak with the operators.Stores use computers to keep records and to send bills to their customers.Offices use computers to type letters,record business and communicate with other officers.People have been using computers in their homes to keep track of expenses and turn appliances on and off.
One important new use for computers is for entertainment.Many new games have been designed to be played on the computers.People of all ages have been playing these games.They have been going to Arcades where the computer games can be played for a small cost. People also have been buying home computers to playcomputer games at homes at home. They have become very popular indeed.
(C)
White beidge was a small village,and old people often came and lived there.Some of them had a lot of old things,and they often didn'twant some of them because they were in a smaller house now.So every Saturday morning they put it out,and other people came and looked at it.Sometimes they took it away for they wanted it.
Every Saturday Mr and Mrs Morton put a very old dog's head out at the side of their gate,but nobody wanted it.Then last Saturday,they wrote"I'mvery lonely here.Please take me.''On a piece of paper and put it near the dog's head.
They went to town, and came home in the evening.There was one more dog's head in front of their house,and there was another piece of paper on it.It said"I was lonely,too.''