《2025年新课程新教材导航学七年级英语上册外研版》

七、阅读短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给词的正确形式填空,使短文通顺、连贯。
Once upon a time, there was no tea at all in England. People there used 1. ______(drink) a light beer(啤酒). No coffee or milk but large glasses of beer could 2. ______(stand) on the breakfast table!
When people 3. ______(one) brought tea to England, an old couple got some as a special treat(款待). 4. ______ they did not know how to use it. They cooked the 5. ______(leaf) in hot water, and put them on a piece of bacon(熏肉) which they were going to have for dinner. They ate the leaves, and threw the tea away! However, tea is becoming 6. ______ popular as coffee and milk in England today.
Tea is the leaf of a plant which grows 7. ______(wide) in China, Japan and some other countries. Tea farmers usually grow a great many tea plants on a large piece of land. When the tea farmers start 8. ______(pick) the tea leaves, it is the busiest time for them in a year. They pull off the leaves and dry 9. ______(they). In their free time, they pick out the best leaves and get them ready for the market. In China, whenever 10. ______ visitor arrives at a house, he or she gets a cup of tea.

答案： 1. to drink 2. stand 3. first 4. But 5. leaves 6. as 7. widely 8. to pick/picking 9. them 10. a