ADMICRO

Read the passage and mark A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the blanks.
                       ROSES
According to fossil fuel records, roses are over 35 million years old and they were cultivated in China about 5,000 years ago. A Chinese emperor in the 6th century B.C. apparently had over 600 books  on roses in his library, and oil was extracted from those grown in his gardens. (1)........ , only the highest members of society were allowed to use it. If anyone else was found with even a small amount, they were (2)............ to death. Roses were also popular with the Romans, who used their petals as medicine, a source of perfume and as confetti at weddings.
Cultivated rose were only introduced to Western Europe in the 18th century. Napoleon’s wife, Josephine, started a botanical garden near  Paris, (3)........... she collected all the known varieties of rose and encouraged the breeding of new ones. This led to the flowers becoming increasingly popular, and in Britain at that time roses became so (4)........ that they were often used as currency in local markets.
All roses in Europe used to be pink or white until the first red ones arrived from China 200 years ago. These now (5)........ love and are the world’s most common cut flower.
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