通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后按照句子结构的语法和上下文连贯的要求,从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。
There are only two ways to say “tea” all around the world. One is the English term “tea” and its changed forms, _________ is cha and its changed forms.
Both forms come from China. The words _________ sound like “cha” spread across land, along the Silk Road. The “tea”-like ones spread over water.
_________ word cha is well known to Chinese. It began in China and made its way through central Asia, becoming “chay” in Persian. The word then became chay in Urdu, shay in Arabic, and chay in Russian. It even _________ to Africa. There it became chai in Swahili. In Japanese and Korean, tea is based on the Chinese cha as well, _________ it began to be used earlier, long before its westward spread.
In some areas of China, the word for tea, is pronounced _________. In the Min Nan areas in Fujian Province, it is te. In the 17th century, the Dutch became one of _________ traders of tea. Their main ports _________ in Fujian where people used the te pronunciation. The te pronunciation spread to Europe _________ tea and became the French thé, the German Tee, and the English tea.
Yet the Portuguese (葡萄牙人) traded not through Fujian __________ Macau, where chá is used. That’s why the pronunciation of tea in Portugal is different from that in other European countries.
1. A.another | B.the other | C.other | D.others |
2. 3. 4. A.travels | B.traveled | C.would travel | D.will travel |
5. A.though | B.until | C.unless | D.because |
6. A.different | B.difference | C.differently | D.differences |
7. A.big | B.bigger | C.biggest | D.the biggest |
8. A.build | B.built | C.are built | D.were built |
9. 10.