(二)从方框中选出合适的词完成下列短文。(10分)
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Twenty years ago, the UK wasn’t famous for good food. In fact, people in most countries laughed at British cooking! When people talk about traditional British food, they always (1) ________ fish and chips and a cup of tea.
Tea wasn’t always a British drink. The Chinese (2) ________ tea nearly 5,000 years ago. But it didn’t become popular in Europe (3) ________ the 17th century. After water, tea is the most popular drink in the world. Tea is very good for you and the Chinese say that it helps people to stay (4) ________.
Fish and chips shops became (5) ________ with poor people in the UK in the 19th century. Poor people worked very long hours and they didn’t have much free time for (6) ________. Fish and chips were cheap, (7) ________ they weren’t very healthy. The shops fried fish and chops in lard (the fat from cows). Eating a lot of oil is bad for us, but lard is much worse!
Today, the UK is (8) ________ for its foreign restaurants. You can find excellent restaurants from most countries of the world in London. And the British are very (9) ________ in food .Some of the most popular TV programs and books in the UK are (10) _______ _ cooking.