Eating in different areas

All around the world, everyone has to eat.【小题1】

What people eat is related to where they live.【小题2】For example, the cold weather near the North Pole (北极) means that few plants can grow there.【小题3】

In Northern China, corn and wheat  grow  well  because  of  the  dry  weather. 【小题4】 People there usually grow and eat rice because their land is near lakes or rivers. They do this also because there is much rain.

The land and weather in Central America is good for growing cocoa trees. Cocoa trees may have gotten their start on the lower slopes of the Andes Mountains. Cocoa trees can only live in hot, rainy places near the Equator. Chocolate is made from the seeds named cocoa beans in the fruit of these trees.【小题5】Chocolate has become the food that people can’t live without.