2023届高考英语最新时事英语热点新闻之语法填空55-57

高考版最新时事英语热点新闻之语法填空55-57（高阶） 55 改编自chinadaily 2023-1-24 CHANGSHA - Once a niche product reserved for border trade, Chinese dark tea is now making another long and bumpy journey toward new-style beverage shops, 1.______ are the darling of the young sipping class. Dark tea, or fermented tea, has a long history of being compressed into tea cakes and carried on horseback to northwestern hinderlands and foreign countries, 2.______(win) it the sobriquet "border tea" or "export tea." As the fashion of new-style tea brews swept across China, dark tea found new clients in big cities: the many bubble tea shops 3.______(vie) for the hearts of young urbanites with innovative recipes. In Changsha, the glitzy capital of Hunan, tea shops mix dark tea 4.______ light cream and pecans and advertise its health-enhancing effects, such as lowering cholesterol levels. "I like bubble tea but don't want to get fat, so I'm attracted 5.______ the 'fat-scraping' effect of dark tea, as well as its special taste," said Peng Hongzhi, a 37-year-old Changsha resident and fan of dark tea-based bubble tea. Peng notes dark tea's bitter taste and special aroma, which have long made the tea an outlier in China's mainstream tea market. Its unique 6.______(bitter) also poses a challenge for developers of popular beverages. Sexy Tea, a popular tea brand also 7.______(know) as Modern China Tea Shop, said it began to develop dark tea-based beverages in 2019, in a bid to diversify its portfolio of green, black and oolong teas. The company selected dark tea categories with richer flavors and added cream to improve the taste. "Dark tea has a strong personality. Some clients love it, some hate it," said Liu Qiaofang, 8.______ works in public relations with Sexy Tea. Liu Yang, founder of Chaermasi Chinese Dark Tea, is one of the young entrepreneurs 9.______(work) to unleash the market potentials of dark tea, which remains a niche product among young consumers. "We wish to introduce dark tea into the lives of yo