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B.根据短文内容和所给中文提示，写出空白处各个单词的正确形式。每空限填一词。
    China is the home of tea, which has more than 4,000 years of  ______ (历史). People in China drink tea every day. Of the   ______  （三） major drinks----tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by the  ______  （大的） number of people in the world. Tea from China  ______  （开始）to be known by the world over a thousand years ago along with si lk and porcelain﹡ and has been an important Chinese export﹡ since then .
    Tea leaves are produced mainly in the southern   ______  (地区) of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian,  ______  （因为）of the warm weather and rich soil﹡ there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all  ______ （有名的）kinds of tea.
    Over the past centuries, Chinese people have developed  ______ （他们的）special tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea  ______ （制作），tea drinking and so on. Tea is  ______   （也）a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.