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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 For nearly a thousand years, tea stayed the secret of the East....
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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
For nearly a thousand years, tea stayed the secret of the East. Then, in the 1500s, the Portuguese 1. (gradual) arrived in China. They’d travelled to the Far East hoping to control the spice trade. But soon 2. tasting the brew for the first time, the 3. (explore)quickly realized its potential and decided to focus on exporting tea instead. The Portuguese called the drink cha, just like the people of southern China did. From the port of Canton, the Portuguese shipped the 4. (process) leaves down through Indonesia, under the southern tip of Africa, and back up to 5. (west) Europe.
But long before the root word “cha” made 6. (it) way across the oceans to Portugal, another trade route called the “Tea-Horse” road 7. (spread) tea westward. 8. bricks of tea packed up high on the carriers’ backs, the leaf travelled to India via Persia, 9. the Chinese “cha” turned into the Persian “chay”. Depending on the region of India, most Indian dialects use some variation of the root word “cha” 10. (describe) tea.
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