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【題目】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 that her friends thought they must copy everything she did, 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 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 it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born .

【1】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

【2】Tea became a popular drink in Britain .

A. in the sixteenth century

B. in the seventeenth century

C. in the eighteenth century

D. in the late seventeenth century

【3】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(上層的) social class

D. people in Holland

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】C

【解析】

試題分析：從整篇文章看出是英國茶的歷史。

【1】A主旨題：從整篇文章看出是英國茶的歷史。選A。

【2】B 推理題：從文章第三段的內(nèi)容：看出茶是在17世紀(jì)在英國流行的。選B。

【3】C推理題。從文章第四段的句子：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. 因為她是這樣一位偉大的女性，她的朋友認(rèn)為他們必須復(fù)制她所做的一切，所以他們還喝了他們加牛奶的茶�？梢�看出C項正確。

【名師點撥】

推理判斷題要求在理解原文表面文字信息的基礎(chǔ)上，做出一定的推理判斷，從而得到文章的隱含意義和深層意義。推理判斷題所涉及的內(nèi)容可能是文中的某一句話，也可能是某幾句話，所以，推理題的答案只能是根據(jù)原文表面文字信息一步推出的答案：即對原文某一句話或某幾句話所作的同義改寫或綜合。推理判斷題的題干中通常含infer，suggest，imply，conclude ，indicate等標(biāo)志性詞語。 這種題型主要包括細(xì)節(jié)判斷題、態(tài)度觀點推斷題、寫作意圖推斷題、文章出處判斷題和猜測想象推斷題。比如，第15小題C推理題。從文章第四段的句子：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. 因為她是這樣一位偉大的女性，她的朋友認(rèn)為他們必須復(fù)制她所做的一切，所以他們還喝了他們加牛奶的茶�？梢钥闯鯟項正確。