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 **READING COMPREHENSION March/2011 **


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**Read the text and do the following multiple choice lexical cloze exercises. **

These exercises test your knowledge of individual words, verb patterns, prepositions, phrasal verbs collocations and fixed phrases. To do them you should follow the advice below: • Read the text quickly to get a general idea of the meaning. • Read again and carefully consider the options for each gap. • The word you choose must fit both the meaning of the text and the grammar of the sentence. **__The modern story of tea in Britain __** Tea made its first appearance in Britain some 350 years ago and by the end of the seventeenth century tea-drinking was well established. However, during the eighteenth century, its growing popularity was **1 ................... **by the breweries who, concerned by this competition, successfully lobbied for a series of tax rises on all tea imports. It was only in nineteenth century Britain that polite society’s ritual of afternoon tea was born. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">For most of the twentieth **2** ..........__,__ tea reigned in Britain. To this day, “standard” (black) tea, served strong and with milk, remains an indispensable aspect of most British households. However, it is in slow decline. This started in the 1970s, when it first saw serious competition from **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana-Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">3 ......... **soft drinks. It continued in the 1990s, when bottled water became popular, and continues today with the increasing popularity of green tea and herbal teas. And through all this time, coffee has **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana-Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">4............ **on the rise. In town centres, the number of “tea rooms” **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana-Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">5................ **while the number of cafés specializing in coffee has risen. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">These days, turnover from sales of coffee is larger than that of standard tea. However, the British tea industry can proudly point to the fact that tea still accounts **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana-Bold','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">6 .............. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">a third of all liquid refreshment taken in Britain – far more than any other drink. In fact, there is a sense in which the industry’s problem is a result of standard black tea’s absolutely central place in British habits. 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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">WRITE YOUR FAVOURITE DRINK: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">WRITE THE MOST POPULAR DRINK IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR GIRLS: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">WRITE THE MOST POPULAR DRINK IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR BOYS: <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">DO YOU DRINK DURING THE MEALS? WHAT??