2025届高考英语考前冲刺语篇填空考点押题之中国茶文化专篇

2025届高考英语考前冲刺语篇填空考点押题之中国茶文化专篇

A

Tea plays a vital role in Chinese life since ancient times. Chinese Tea 1.      

(exist) for more than 5000 years. It was said that tea 2.        (discover) by accident.

According to legend, 3.        emperor 4.        (call) Shen Nong in the early ancient time discovered tea fortuitously. The emperor thought it can prevent people from diseases 5.        drinking boiled water. One day, 6.        his servants boiled the water for the emperor on the way to a long-distance region, a leaf fell into the water. The emperor was quite interested in the mixture of water, and he drank it and discovered the fresh tea.

Tea was evolved into a beverage from a medicinal plant in Sui and Tang Dynasties. To drink tea spread into more people’s life in Sui Dynasty. It became one of the trade 7.        (product) to the neighboring Mongolian country.

Tang Dynasty (618-907A.D.) was a peak time for tea 8.        (develop). Tea became a wider drinking beverage in people’s 9.        (day) life. A lot of tea trees were 10.        (extensive) planted and the tea culture developed fast.

B

Song Dynasty (690-1279 A.D.) is another important period for the development of tea. More tea species appeared in Song Dynasty. The 1.        (require) of tea was stricter and stricter at the time.

Tea connoisseurs even held competitions 2.          (judge) the quality of tea

3.        (include) the tea leaves, water, and the mixture. Books, poems, and paintings about tea were popular in the whole country, 4.        promoted the tea trade between Central Plains (the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River) and the outside of the great wall. The country benefited a lot 5.        the tea taxes which started in Tang Dynasty

The number of 6.        (society) tea houses increased 7.        (rapid) in Song Dynasty. Tea culture 8.        (form) day by day. Tea became people’s essential drink in daily life. People still made the tea leaves into the brick tea. It is said 9.        the Japanese tea ceremony was originated in the tea in Song Dynasty.

Tea had reached folk life and been widely loved by all levels of people. And the government allowed people to plant tea trees freely. There were more categories of tea including green tea, flower tea, oolong tea, 10.         black tea in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The making process of tea had been improved and it also influenced the drinking styles of tea.

C

People also paid attention to the exquisite teapots. Yixing Purple Clay Teapots were 1.        most popular teapots during this period 2.        had formed a new art of the teapots. Tea houses 3.        (locate) everywhere in the street. The number of tea works including books, poets, paintings of tea was the 4.        in all the dynasties.

A large abundance of tea trades carried on bringing benefits for the government. The government made tea business 5.        a lot of foreign 6.        (country)

such as African and Asian countries and European countries including the Britain and Dutch.

Tea has become one of Chinese specific drinks in the world. A large number of teas are exported to foreign countries. Tea shops and Tea houses in the street are 7.     

(easy) found in China. Chinese tea culture and arts attract a lot of people. It is irreplaceable in Chinese life.

There are fifteen major tea-producing provinces in the mainland of China. Chinese teas are generally divided into six major types, mainly according to the method of 8.        (produce). These types are green tea, black tea, Oolong tea, white tea, yellow tea, and dark tea.

Green tea is the oldest type of tea in China, 9.        it is also produced there in the greatest quantities. Many provinces and cities are renowned for 10.         

production of green tea, the most eminent provinces being Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Anhui. Such as Longjing tea , Maojian Tea of Mount Huangshan, Dongting Pilochun, Sweet Dew of Mengding.

D

In green tea the leaves are not fermented, so they largely retain the 1.        

(origin) flavor of tea, 2.        is simple, elegant, and enduring. At first sip, green tea may taste a little thin, 3.         after a while, it gains a fragrance in the mouth that lingers.

To make green tea, the methods 4.        are mainly (green) steaming, (green) frying, and (green) sun-drying, to remove the moisture in the fresh tea leaves and to bring out their fragrance.

Black tea is a type of fermented tea, originating from green tea after it 5.      

(mix), kneaded, fermented, dried, and otherwise processed. Tea made from green tea leaves is a fresh green while that made using black tea is orange-red.

While green tea retains the thin and refreshing flavor of the leaves, fermented black tea 6.         (give) a stronger and thicker flavor. Black tea first appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and so is much 7.        (young) than green tea. 8.        , it occupied 9.         important position in China’s foreign trade at the end of the Qing Dynasty and was the main type of tea exported 10.        Europe and America.

E

Oolong tea is somewhat intermediate between green 1.        black tea. The finishing technique is that of green tea, but the preparation involves fermentation like black tea – it is a semi-fermented tea. It, therefore, 2.        (have) characteristics of both green and black tea: the fresh and clear flavor of green tea and the thick and luscious fragrance of black tea. Namely Anxi Tie Guanyin,Dragon & Phoenix Cake tea, Wuyi Rock Tea ,Red Robe 

Chinese Oolong tea comes 3.        (main) from Fujian, and Guangdong, and is also grown in Taiwan. Fujian 4.        (be) the hometown of tea since early times. Most tribute tea in the Song Dynasty came from Fujian, including the famous Dragon & Phoenix Cake tea, 5.        many people believe to be the ancestor of Oolong tea.