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。

In 2016, Derek Poskin followed a poem by Li Bai to arrive in China and developed a growing love for Chinese tea culture. These years, he ____46____ (become) a tea businessman already, finding good tea leaves across China and selling them to customers ____47____ (wide) in the world.

He thinks coffee is for work, but tea is for life. He started a business to connect Western drinkers ____48____ Chinese tea traditions in 2018. Instead of buying tea from other businessmen ____49____ sell tea directly, he travels to Yunnan’s ancient forests and Fujian’s oolong gardens to buy it himself.

He thinks it’s ____50____ (wonder) to be part of the living tea culture. Once in Guafengzhai, ____51____ small village in Yunnan, he picked, sun-dried, and roasted (烘) tea leaves with the local ____52____ (villager). In Chaozhou, Guangdong Province, he spent a year ____53____ (learn) to make clay teapots used for gongfu cha.

He thinks Chinese tea culture is changeable—every place has ____54____ (it) own style, and any way is right. For him, tea leaves are only the surface. The true depth lies not only in the land, in the people, ____55____ also in Chinese traditions.

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解析：选has become。动词时态：现在完成时。标志词These years（这些年）、already（已经）是现在完成时典型提示词，表示动作从过去开始，持续到现在并产生结果。主语 he 是第三人称单数，现在完成时结构为has+过去分词；become 的过去分词仍是 become，因此填 has become。

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解析：选widely。词性转换：副词。空格修饰动词 selling（销售），副词用来修饰动词。wide 为形容词，意为 “宽的”；widely 是副词，表示 “广泛地”。sell them widely in the world 意为在世界范围内广泛销售茶叶。

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解析：选with。介词：固定短语搭配。固定搭配connect…with…，含义 “把…… 和…… 联系起来”。本句指把西方饮茶者和中国茶传统建立联系，是中考高频介词词组，故填 with。

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解析：选to。非谓语动词：不定式作目的状语。本句已有谓语 buy，不能再直接用动词原形。不定式to+动词原形在此处表目的，“不从别的商人手里买茶叶，（目的是）直接售卖”，to sell 表达进货的目的。

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解析：选wonderful。词性转换：形容词。固定句型 It is + 形容词 + to do sth.，意为 “做某事是…… 的”，it 作形式主语。wonder 可作名词 “奇迹” 或动词 “想知道”；其形容词形 wonderful“美妙的，极好的” 放在 be 动词后作表语。

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解析：选a。冠词：不定冠词。后面small village（小村庄）是可数名词单数，作 Guafengzhai 的同位语。small 以辅音音素 /s/ 开头，用不定冠词 a，表示泛指 “一个小村庄”。

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解析：选villagers。名词：可数名词复数。villager 意为 “村民”。文中是和当地多名村民一起制茶，不是单个村民，可数名词表示一类多人时要使用复数形式 villagers。local villagers 当地村民。

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解析：选learning。非谓语动词：固定搭配。固定句型spend +时间+(in) doing sth.，表示 “花费时间做某事”，介词 in 可以省略，后面动词需要变为动名词形式。因此 learn 变为 learning。

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解析：选its。代词：形容词性物主代词。空格后面是名词短语 own style（自身的风格），修饰名词需要用形容词性物主代词。it 是主格 / 宾格；对应的形容词性物主代词是 its，译为 “它的”，its own style 它独有的风格。

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解析：选but。连词：并列固定结构。固定句型not only…but also…，意为 “不仅…… 而且……”，用来并列两个成分。本题为该固定搭配的后半部分，必须填 but。