My parents had some strange rules when my sister and I were growing up. For example, they never    1   us soda or juice. Our choice was water or iced tea   2   no sugar. My mom’s   3   for it was that she didn’t like kids who only drank sweet drinks, or worse, kids who did not like    4  ! She wanted to teach us to like water or    5   unsweetened drinks that did not come in a bottle. We, on the other hand, wanted to    6   a coke when we ate out. Now I can make my own decisions, but I    7  choose juice or soda. I don’t __ 8___ it. It’s not because I don’t like it. I’m just used to drinking water. Many people    9  to think that a kid needs juice. If the child can’t get it, he or she will secretly buy this kind of drink elsewhere. I found this really    10  , since I was raised    11   no juice or soda, and I didn’t really    12   only having water. Now people    13   kids to make their own choices,    14   I grew up in a family where the children’s opinions were seldom (很少) 15   for, and the parents made the final decisions.

My parents had some strange rules when my sister and I were growing up. For example, they never    1   us soda or juice. Our choice was water or iced tea   2   no sugar. My mom’s   3   for it was that she didn’t like kids who only drank sweet drinks, or worse, kids who did not like    4  ! She wanted to teach us to like water or    5   unsweetened drinks that did not come in a bottle. We, on the other hand, wanted to    6   a coke when we ate out. Now I can make my own decisions, but I    7  choose juice or soda. I don’t __ 8___ it. It’s not because I don’t like it. I’m just used to drinking water. Many people    9  to think that a kid needs juice. If the child can’t get it, he or she will secretly buy this kind of drink elsewhere. I found this really    10  , since I was raised    11   no juice or soda, and I didn’t really    12   only having water. Now people    13   kids to make their own choices,    14   I grew up in a family where the children’s opinions were seldom (很少) 15   for, and the parents made the final decisions.

1.                A．needed        B．sold            C．bought   D．left

2.                A．with           B．of             C．off  D．without

3.                A．decision        B．reason         C．hobby    D．experience

4.                A．soda           B．juice           C．water    D．milk

5.                A．another        B．the other        C．others    D．other

6.                A．order          B．reply           C．obey     D．achieve

7.                A．ever           B．never          C．always    D．sometimes

8.                A．think about      B．take care        C．pay for   D．think out

9.                A．like            B．seem           C．study D．get

10.               A．excited         B．difficult         C．interesting D．necessary

11.               A．on            B．with           C．by   D．for

12.               A．give up         B．care about      C．take pride in    D．agree with

13.               A．allow          B．design          C．teach     D．cause

14.               A．as             B．since          C．but   D．though

15.               A．added         B．asked          C．influenced D．regarded

Do you know who invented tea? It is said that the emperor Shen Nong  discovered   tea when he was boiling drinking water 21 an open fire. Some leaves from a nearby tree fell into the water and the leaves were in the water for  22 . The emperor noticed that the leaves in the water produced a  23   smell. Later he decided 24  the hot water with the leaves. It was quite delicious. And  25 , one of the worl’s favorite drinks was invented.
26 is the home of tea. And tea has more than 4,000 years history. 27  the three drinks—tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by  28  people in the world. Tea  29 China began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export (出口商品) 30  .
Tea leaves  31  mainly in the south of the Yangtze River, 32 the warm climate (气候)there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all  33   kinds of tea.
Over the past centuries, Chinese people  34   their tea culture(文化), including tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making and so on. We know tea is  35   a popular topic(主题) in dances, songs, poems and novels.