The pineapple was 22 found in Paraguay and in the southern part of Brazil.
答案：(C) originally
語意「鳳梨『最初』是在巴拉圭和巴西南部被發現的」，originally（最初）符合這個溯源語境；nearly（幾乎）、recently（最近，這是講歷史起源不是近期）、shortly（不久）都不合。
看到 originally，你腦中跳出來的通常是 original「原創的、原版的」（an original song 原唱、the original version 原版），整個和「創意」綁在一起。但副詞 originally 講的是時間，意思是「最初、本來」，指的是一件事最早的狀態或起點。
這一段是一條清楚的時間線：先在南美洲被發現，接著原住民種到中南美洲與加勒比海一帶，然後哥倫布把它帶回歐洲，再傳到世界各地，最後才落腳夏威夷。空格這一句是這條線的起點，需要的正是「最初」。把四個選項各代進去一次，再看它與時間線的位置合不合，答案就只剩一個。
nearly（幾乎）拿來修飾 found 會變成「幾乎被發現」，語意不通。recently（最近）與前一句的 1813 年、後文的哥倫布年代直接衝突。shortly（不久後）看起來最像，但它需要一個時間基準點才用得上，像 shortly after the war（戰後不久），本句並沒有給任何基準點，單獨用 shortly 會沒有著落。
originally（最初、本來）、be found in（產於、在……被發現）、the southern part of（……的南部）、shortly after（……之後不久）、the original version（原版）、nearly all（幾乎全部）
The pineapple, long a symbol of Hawaii, was not a native plant. 21 , pineapples did not appear there until 1813. The pineapple was 22 found in Paraguay and in the southern part of Brazil. Natives planted the fruit across South and Central America and in the Caribbean region, 23 Christopher Columbus first found it.
Columbus brought it, along with many other new things, back to Europe with him. From there, the tasty fruit 24 throughout other parts of civilization. It was carried on sailing ships around the world because it was found to help prevent scurvy, a disease that often 25 sailors on long voyages. It was at the end of one of these long voyages that the pineapple came to Hawaii to stay.