Reading & Writing: Fill in the Blanks — practice #rwfib-003

Coffee was first cultivated in the highlands of Ethiopia before — choose —spreadingfadingsinkingfreezing across the Arabian Peninsula. Traders carried the beans to ports where merchants — choose —ignoredwastedloweredrecognised their value for both flavour and energy. By the seventeenth century, coffee houses had — choose —emergedcollapsedvanishedretired throughout Europe, becoming lively centres of conversation and debate. Some governments even tried to — choose —fundhostbanpraise these gatherings, fearing that they encouraged political unrest.