题目内容：

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

China is the native place of tea. Originally (最初), tea 1. (use) as a kind of medicine instead of a drink. 2. (late), as the ancient Chinese explored further into the features of tea, they separated it 3. herbs and made it into a kind of drink and 4. (gradual) it developed into Chinese tea culture.

Records show that the custom of tea drinking, 5. started in the western Han Dynasty, already became 6. fashion for people with high 7. (society) position during the Dynasty of Wei. In the Tang Dynasty it was common 8. (drink) tea. And people tried out even more 9. (way) to drink tea. In the Song Dynasty, tea planting and trade were on the increase and the technique of 10. (make) tea was greatly improved. By the Yuan Dynasty, drinking tea had became something very common in everyday life. In the Ming and the Qing Dynasties, people drank tea in almost the same way as we do today.