China is the native place of tea. As     1     matter of fact, tea was originally（最初的）used as kind of     2     （value）medicine instead of a drink. Later, as the ancient Chinese explored     3    （far）into the features of tea, they separated it     4     herbs and made it into a kind of drink and gradually people began to know it is     5    （physical）beneficial.

Records show that the custom of tea drinking,     6     started in the western Han Dynasty, already     7     （become）fashion for people with high social position during the Dynasty of Wei. In the Tang Dynasty it was common     8     （drink）tea. And people tried out even more     9    （way）to drink tea. In the Song Dynasty, tea planting and trade were on the increase and the technique of     10    （make）tea was greatly improved. By the Yuan Dynasty, drinking tea had became something very common in everyday life. In the Ming and the Qing Dynasties, people drank tea in almost the same way as we do today.

In northeastern Liaoning Province, winter can be very cold. For months, almost nothing grows on these frozen areas, except for one     1     (surprise) product—grapes, which make something special, ice wine. Ice wine     2     (make) from frozen grapes. The freezing process gives the wine a sweet flavor. It’s so much     3     (strong). It tastes like a raisin (葡萄干).

Here, conditions for making ice wine are so perfect     4     a third of the world’s ice wine is now produced here. Strict rules mean that the temperature must be at least -8℃ for 24 hours. While they wait, the grapes could go bad. So,     5     (prevent) this from happening, they need to be picked as soon as the conditions     6     (be) right.

In the early morning, the villagers are all     7     (die) to help. The grapes planted here are called Vidal. As soon as the grapes are picked, they are transported to the wine company—the largest     8     (produce) in China. Two years later, the wine is ready to be in the bottles, each of     9     contains the juice of a 2.5 kilograms of grapes. These bottles will be    10     the dinner table across China and even the world.