Tea Bags - Test 2

B2 First · Multiple Choice Cloze · Cambridge English First 3, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below and decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each gap. There is an example at the beginning.

set

kept

left

saved

immersed

soaked

filled

absorbed

sharp

bright

light

keen

put in

give up

hand out

make over

intended

determined

designed

established

satisfaction

benefit

convenience

opportunity

thought

came

started

made

distinct

particular

specific

individual

Over the centuries, tea has been made in many different (0) ___ across the world. In the USA, until a little over a hundred years ago, dried tea was always sold and consumed as loose leaves. To make a drink, boiling water was poured over the tea leaves and (1) ___ to stand while the water (2) ___ the flavour of the leaves. In 1908, Thomas Sullivan, a New York tea salesman, had the (3) ___ idea of putting tea leaves in small silk bags to (4) ___ as samples to potential customers. Sullivan (5) ___ the tea to be removed from the bags before making a drink in the conventional manner. However, for the sake of (6) ___ , his customers (7) ___ up with the revolutionary practice of dipping the silk bag, contents and all, into boiling water. Cheap paper bags were introduced in the 1930s, completing the design of the modern tea bag. Today billions of (8) ___ paper bags of tea are sold annually worldwide.

Tea bags

ways

methods

manners

types

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