Задание №56158 ЕГЭ по Английскому языку

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Afternoon Tea

Afternoon tea, A                          , perhaps surprisingly, a relatively new tradition. Whilst the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China and was popularized in England during the 1660s by King Charles II and his wife the Portuguese Infanta Catherine de Braganza, it was not until the mid 19th century B                          .
Afternoon tea was introduced in England by Anna, the seventh Duchess of Bedford, in the year 1840. The Duchess would become hungry around four o’clock in the afternoon. The evening meal in her household was served fashionably late at eight o’clock, C                          . The Duchess asked that a tray of tea, bread and butter (some time earlier, the Earl of Sandwich had the idea of D                          ) and cake be brought to her room during the late afternoon. This became a habit of hers and she began inviting friends to join her.
This pause for tea became a fashionable social event. During the 1880’s upper-class and society women would change into long gowns, gloves and hats for their afternoon tea E                          .
Traditional afternoon tea consists of F                          . Cakes and pastries are also served. Tea grown in India or Ceylon is poured from silver tea pots into delicate bone china cups.

1. a selection of dainty sandwiches, scones served with clotted cream and preserves
2. thus leaving a long period of time between lunch and dinner
3. which was usually served in the drawing room between four and five o’clock
4. putting a filling between two slices of bread
5. as well as cups of hot sweet tea served in china teacups
6. that most quintessential of English customs is
7. that the concept of ‘afternoon tea’ first appeared