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Tea is popular around the world. Tea originated in China, so it should be no_1__that the use of teapots (茶壶)is from China as well. However,it is _2___that the invention of teapots came at least 500 years after tea was first made to drink.
During the early days of tea drinking,tea leaves were placed_3__into a cup of hot water. It wasn’t until the Ming Dynasty that the first 4___were created.
The first teapots came from Yixing, China ,Since the Sung Dynasty a kind of purple clay called zisha had been mined(开采) around Lake Taihu, and it was _5__ to make teapots. The clay can _6__the taste of tea. If a teapot is used long enough, it’ll store enough of the tea’s taste. Then it is __7___to brew(泡)tea with the teapot and boiling water alone.
Yixing teapots were the prototype(雏形)of teapots. They were made _8___hand and in some traditional ways. Yixing teapots are still used today in China,and their construction has _9__ little over the centuries.
Chinese teapots have stayed nearly _10__ over the centuries. From their first introduction to the West in the late 1600s,however ,western teapots have changed a lot at the European market.
( )1. A. choice B. trouble C.pleasure D.surprise
( )2.A.interesting B.frustrating C.strange D.exciting
( )3.A.slowly B.quickly C.directly D.correctly
( )4.A.teapots B.plates C.bowls D.glasses
( )5.found B.used C.discovered D.asked
( )6.A.get in B.join in C.fill in D.take in
( )7.A.strange B.possible C.difficult D.pleasant
( )8.A.by B.in C.for D.with
( )9.A.risen B.changed C.increased D.moved
( )10. A.different B.the different C.same D.the same
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