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Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone

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问题     Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about tea.【74】, 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.【75】. 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【76】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 17th century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that【77】.
    At the same time people on the Continent were becoming more and more fond of tea. Until then tea had been drunk without mill in it. But one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when mill 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 mill in it.【78】.
    Sentences:
    A. The price fell and many more people could afford to buy it
    B. Not many people drunk tea before the 17th century in England
    C. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like
    D. Many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread
    E. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today very few Britons drink tea with mill
    F. Some of them were not sure how to use it [br]
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答案 F
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