READING AND USE – PART 1B

For questions 1-8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning (0).

Example:
0.   A short    B fact    C truth   D real
(The correct answer is B)

TEA
Tea is considered to be a British drink, when in (0) ______ the history of tea goes (1) ____ further back. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting (2)_____ a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung decided to try the infusion that his servant had (3)_____ created. The tree was a Camellia sinensis, and the drink was what we now call tea.
It is impossible to know whether there is (4) ____ truth in this story. Archaeologists have excavated containers for tea from tombs dating (5) ____ the Han dynasty. It became (6) ____ a favourite that during the late eighth century a writer called Lu Yu wrote the first book entirely about it, the Ch’a Ching, or Tea Classic. Tea was shortly after (7)____ to Japan and since then it has become a vital part of the Japanese culture, as seen in the development of the Tea Ceremony, (8) ____ may be rooted in the rituals described in the Ch’a Ching.