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TeadrinkingwascommoninChinafornearlyonethousandyearsbef...

Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about le in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like,mainly because tea was very could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable of them were not sure how to use thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the they served them mixed with butter and soon discovered their mistake but many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.

Tea remained scarce and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it direct from China early in the seventeenth ng the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of l then tea had been drunk without milk in it,but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without use she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did,so they also drank their tea with milk in ly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few British people drink tea without milk.

At first,tea was usually drunk after dinner in the one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess (公爵夫人) found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so,tea-time was born.

h of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?

ish people were the first people in Europe who drank tea.

was not until the 17th century that British people had tea.

ish people got expensive tea from India.

reached Britain from Holland.

does this passage most probably talk about?

talks about how British people got the habit of drinking tea

talks about how tea became a popular drink in Britain

talks about the history of tea drinking in Britain

talks about how tea-time was born

le in Europe began to drink tea with milk because .

with milk stopped people getting a sinking feeling

le followed the way a French lady drank tea

with milk was then a fashionable curiosity

with milk tasted much more pleasant

may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of      .

upper social class                   ancient Chinese

C.a famous French lady                  le in Holland

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