In the late seventeenth century, a transformation began that would make coffee one of the most popular drinks in Europe. The coffeehouse-meeting place of bankers, dissidents, artists, merchants, poets, wits, and rogues-was in some ways the cradle of modern Europe. Coffee would change, in less than a century, ________ drink of a few princes and a few paupers ________ chief social beverage of the rising middle class.
Q. The word “transformation” is closest in meaning to:
(A) trend
(B) event
(C) custom
(D) change
The answer is: (D) change
Q. Fill in the blanks:
(A) from the, to the
(B) because, became
(C) since, for
(D) none of these
The answer is: (A) from the, to the