China is the home of tea,  36 has more than 4,000 years of history. People in China drink tea daily.  37  the three major drinks ----tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by   38 people in the world. Tea from China, along   39 silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export  40  .

Tea leaves  41  mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild  42  and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all 43  kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people  44  their unique tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making, tea drinking and so on. Tea is   45  a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.

China is the home of tea,  36 has more than 4,000 years of history. People in China drink tea daily.  37  the three major drinks ----tea, coffee and cocoa, tea is drunk by   38 people in the world. Tea from China, along   39 silk and porcelain, began to be known by the world over a thousand years ago and has been an important Chinese export  40  .

Tea leaves  41  mainly in the area south of the Yangtze River, in the provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Fujian, because of the mild  42  and rich soil there. Longjing, Wulong, Pu’er and Tieguanyin are all 43  kinds of tea.

Over the past centuries, Chinese people  44  their unique tea culture, which includes tea planting, tea-leaf picking, tea making, tea drinking and so on. Tea is   45  a popular topic which is often mentioned in dances, songs, poems and novels.

The two ladies are ___ the same age, but there seems to be ten years ______ them.

A. at; between B. about; among     C. at; among        D. of; between

One of Jack’s friends loves money very much, and he never gives anything to __35__. Soon he becomes very rich.

One day, while he was walking near a river__36__ his friends, he slipped（ 滑倒）and fell into the river. His friends ran to help him, and one of __37__ kneeled（跪）on the ground, held out his hand and said, “Give me your __38__, and I will pull you out!” The rich man’s head went under the __39__ and then came up again, but he didn’t give his hand. Again another one tried, but again __40__ thing happened.

Then Jack said，“__41__ my hand and I will pull you out!” The rich man took his hand, and Jack pulled him out of the water.

“You don’t know our __42__ very well,” he said to __43__, “when you say “Give’ to him, he does nothing, but when you say ‘Take’, he does what you tell him__44__.”

8.A. friends    B. friend          C. hand         D hands

Look! They are sitting __________ the tree.