CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH / ADVANCED / CAE / USE OF ENGLISH / word formation

For questions 1- 8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

The Cup of Humanity

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite (1) ... . The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism - Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the (2) ... of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday (3) ... .It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the (4) ... of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the (5) ..., as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses (6) … with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces (7) ... ; it is economics, for it shows comfort in (8) ... rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, in as much as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.

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[answer="AMUSEMENT" label="AMUSE"]

[answer="ADORATION" label="ADORE"]

[answer="EXISTENCE" label="EXIST"]

[answer="ROMANTICISM" label="ROMANTIC"]

[answer="IMPERFECT" label="PERFECT"]

[answer="CONJOINTLY" label="CONJOIN"]

[answer="CLEANLINESS" label="CLEAN"]

[answer="SIMPLICITY" label="SIMPLE"]

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