The passage discusses the history and spread of coffee. It describes how coffee was first discovered by a goat herder in Ethiopia and then used by various tribes. It explains that Arabs began boiling the coffee beans to create a drink and the Turks were the first to adopt coffee as an everyday beverage. The passage also notes that coffee was introduced to Europe by Italian traders in the 1600s and then spread widely, with coffeehouses opening across countries and becoming popular meeting places.

1. Underline the Passive Form from the following passage.
Coffee Please !
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The most common legend about the discovery of coffee is that it happened in the
ninth century A.D. A goat herder in Ethiopia named Kalil noticed that his goats became very
active after they ate red berries from a leafy bush. He tried a few berries himself, and he was
soon as overactive as his herd. Kalil told other people in his tribe about his experience, and
for the next four hundred years, people chewed the berries because they gave quick energy.
Recent botanical evidence indicates that Coffee Arabica was first grown on the
plateaus of central Ethiopia. There, the Galla tribe used to mix the beans with animal fat
and eat this mixture as a source of nutrition. In 1000 A.D., the Arabs began to boil the beans
and created a drink they called “qahwa”, which means wine, coffee, or any drink made
from plants. Coffee was also used by the people of that region to get more energy.
However, the Turks were the first to adopt coffee as an everyday drink, often adding spices
to the brew. The world’s first coffeehouse was opened in Constantinople in 1475.
The introduction of coffee in Europe came much later. The delicacy was guarded like
a military secret, and transportation of the plant out of the Muslim regions was forbidden. In
the 1600s, coffee was introduced in Europe by Italian traders through the port of Venice.
Soon coffee became a popular European beverage, too. Coffeehouses spread in one country
after another, and became popular meeting places. The first coffeehouses opened in
England around 1650, and almost twenty years later coffee replaced beer as New York City’s
breakfast drink.
Today coffee is drunk in millions of homes and workplaces all over the world, and
coffee shops are found at almost every intersection in major cities.
Source: My World 4