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IV.课文反馈根据短文内容，用适当的词填空，使短文意思完整、通顺。

Did you know that tea,the most popular drink in the world (after water) , was invented by accident? Many people believe that tea was first drunk about 5 ,000 years ago. It is said that a Chinese ruler

1. Shén Nong was the first to discover tea as a drink. One day Shen Nong was 2. drinking water over an open fire. Some leaves from a tea plant 3. into the water and remained there for some time. It produced a nice smell so he

4. the brown water. It was quite deli cious,and so,one of the world's favorite drinks was invented.

A few thousand years later,Lu Yu, “the saint of tea”，5. Shen Nong in his book ChaJ ing. The book describes how tea plants were grown and used to make tea. It also discusses where the finest tea leaves were 6. and what kinds of water were used.

It is believed that tea was 7. to Korea and Japan during the 6th and 7th centuries. In Eng- land,tea didn't appear 8. around 1660,but in less than 100 years,it had become the national drink. The tea trade from China to Western countries took place in the 19th 9. . This helped to spread the popularity of tea and the tea plant to more places around the world. Even though many people now know about tea culture,the Chinese are without

10. the ones who best understand the nature of tea.

Answer 1

IV. 1. called/named   2. boiling .

3. fell   4. tasted

5. mentioned   6. produced   7. brought

8. until   9. century   10. doubt