2011年上半年河北省学位英语教材第二十七单元阅读理解2

2010年学位英语第27单元阅读理解2

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Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like， mainly because tea was very expensive. It 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 curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They 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 century. During 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 tea. Until 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 added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Because she was such a great lady her friends thought they must copy everything she did， so they also drank their tea with milk in it. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.

At first， tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchessfound 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 it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so， tea-time was born.

1. Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?
A)The Britons got expensive tea from India.
B) Tea reached Britain from Holland.
C)The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea.
D)It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea.

2. This passage mainly discusses.
A)the history of tea drinking in Britain
B) how tea became a popular drink in Britain
C)how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea
D)how tea-time was born

3. Tea became a popular drink in Britain.
A)in eighteenth century
B) in sixteenth century
C)in seventeenth century
D)in the late seventeenth century

4. People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because.
A)milk is abundant and there fore very cheap in Europe
B)this kind of tea tasted more pleasant
C)thin kind of drink became very popular
D)people tried to copy an influential lady's way of drinkg tea

5. We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of.
A)a famous French lady
B) the ancient Chinese
C)the upper social class
D)people in Holland

答案 BACDC

直到17世纪初东印度公司开始直接从中国运输茶叶，茶叶在英国一直很稀有，很昂贵。

大致意思：

饮茶是很普遍了近千年前，任何人在欧洲曾经听到有关中国茶。在英国人们要慢得多找到什么茶是这样，主要是因为茶是非常昂贵的。它不能在商店购买，甚至谁的人有能力将它从荷兰发出这样做不仅是因为它是一种时髦，好奇心。
其中有些人不知道如何使用它。他们认为这是一个蔬菜，并试图烹饪的叶子。然后，他们为他们服务的混合奶油与盐。他们很快发现自己的错误，但很多人用来传播所用的茶叶对面包，让他们作为三明治子女。
茶叶依然稀少，而且非常昂贵，直到在英国的东印度公司的船只开始将直接从中国早在17世纪。在接下来的这么多茶叶进入该国的价格下跌，很多人能买得起这几年来。
与此同时，在欧洲大陆的人越来越喜欢茶。在此之前，茶叶一直没有也喝牛奶，但有一天著名的法国女士名叫夫人塞维涅决定，看看茶味道就像牛奶加入。她认为这样愉快，她永远不会再没有牛奶喝。
因为她就是这样一位伟大的女性，她的朋友认为，他们必须将她的一切，所以他们自己也喝了也奶茶。这个习惯慢慢地扩散，直至传到英国，如今只有很少的英国人不加牛奶喝喝茶。
起初，茶叶通常是喝醉后，在晚上没有人在饮用下午茶思想晚餐，直到公爵夫人发现，一杯茶和三四个一块蛋糕时停下来，让“一下沉的感觉“她的说法。她请她的朋友有跟她，所以，茶，吃饭时新诞生。

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