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For questions 1-8, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each gap. Use only one word in each gap.
Although tea is now seen as typically British, it was almost unknown in the country before the middle of the seventeenth century. It first became fashionable after Catherine of Braganza, a Portuguese princess 1. married King Charles II in 1662, brought her love of the drink with her to the royal court. At first tea was so expensive that only the rich 2. afford it, and it was kept in locked boxes to prevent servants 3. helping themselves. High taxes meant that much of the tea drunk in Britain was smuggled into the country, and some of it was mixed 4. leaves from other plants to make it go further. It was not 5. the government cut the tax dramatically in 1784 that tea became a drink for everyone. By the nineteenth century it had become 6. an important part of daily life that factory workers were given tea breaks. Coffee has been catching 7. in recent years, 8. least among younger people, but tea is still drunk in enormous quantities across the country.