Unit 10 Exercise 3

Tea

Tea is -Select- kind of hot drink. It is made from -Select- leaves of a small bush. -Select- name comes from a Chinese word 'thai'.

There is -Select- story about the first cup of -Select- tea. In about 2,700 BCE, the ruler of -Select- China felt tired. He sat down under -Select- tree. He boiled -Select- water to drink. Some leaves fell from -Select- tree into the pot. He drank -Select- water. Suddenly, he didn't feel tired anymore.

It was -Select- 3,000 years before the drink became popular in China. In 800 CE the Chinese took some bushes to -Select- Japan. -Select- Tea arrived in Europe at the beginning of -Select- 18th century. In the 1820s, people found -Select- tea bushes in Burma (now Myanmar) and India. The British took -Select- bushes to Sri Lanka.

Now there are -Select- tea bushes in countries in -Select- Asia, Africa and South America.