We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe (歐洲) did not know anything about tea. Some people heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.
  There is a story about an English sailor (水手) who went to countries in the east,the west and the south. He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”. When her friends came to the “tea party”, the old woman offered (給) them brown tea-leaves (茶葉). The old woman’s friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea-leaves.
  At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, “Mother, what have you done with the tea?”
  “I boiled (煮) it,as you said.”
  “And what did you do with the water?”
  “I threw it away, of course.” answered the old woman.
  “Now you may throw away the leaves, too.” said her son.
(    ) 1. Most of the people in Europe ________.
     A. drank tea every day 300 years ago        B. drink tea every day
     C. know nothing about tea               D. like to eat the tea-leaves
(    ) 2. One day the English sailor brought his mother some tea from ________.
     A. countries in the west                   B. countries in the south
     C. India or China                       D. a tea shop in England
(    ) 3. The sailor’s mother asked her friends to her house, because ________.
     A. the sailor told her to
     B. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea
     C. she liked to show off (炫耀)
     D. she wanted to sample (品嘗) the tea together with her friends
(    ) 4. At the “tea party”,________.
     A. all the woman’s friends spoke highly of the tea
     B. nobody knew what to do with the tea
     C. the woman offered her friends some dried (干的) tea
     D. the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea water
(    ) 5. What mistake did the old woman make? She ________.
     A. boiled the tea                       B. did as the sailor said
     C. poured away the water                D. didn’t throw away the tea-leaves
CCDBC
文章大意:300年前歐洲幾乎沒人知道茶是什么,有一個水手從印度或中國帶回了茶葉讓媽媽煮。媽媽煮好了之后請客人來開茶派對,但是不知道喝茶,只把茶葉吃了,茶給倒了。客人們都覺得茶葉很難‘吃’
1. 細節(jié)考查。C 根據(jù)文章第一段But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe (歐洲) did not know anything about tea.可知300年前沒人知道茶。
2. 細節(jié)考查。C 根據(jù)文章第二段He went to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother可知茶是從中國或印度帶回來的。
3. 細節(jié)考查。D 根據(jù)文章第二段the old woman offered (給) them brown tea-leaves (茶葉)可知媽媽請客人來品嘗茶。
4. 細節(jié)考查。B 所有人不知道怎么樣吃茶 C 選項說的是媽媽給客人干茶葉,但是在短文里可以看到媽媽 ’boiled the tea with water’,所以茶葉是煮過的,不是干的
5.細節(jié)考查。 C 倒數(shù)第二段媽媽提到把水倒了 "I threw it away,of course."。
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