英语阅读理解模拟试题及答案(四)
Passage 16
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 becau tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even tho people who could afford to have it nt from Holland did so only becau it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to u it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they rved them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake but many people ud to spread the ud tea leaves on bread and give them to their children as sandwiches.
简单做 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 venteenth 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.布达拉宫英文>教师节英文
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 e what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. Becau 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 duchess （公爵夫人） found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o'clock stopped her gettinga sinking feelingas she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so, tea-time was born.
76. Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain？
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胡萝卜肉丸 A）The Britons got expensive tea from India.
红薯南瓜粥 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.
77. This passage mainly discuss 。
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
78. Tea became a popular drink in Britain 。
A）in eighteenth century B）in sixteenth century
C）in venteenth century D）in the late venteenth century
79. People in Europe began to drink tea with milk becau 。
A）it tasted like milk
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B） it tasted more pleasant
C）it became a popular drink
D）Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea
80. 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 Chine
C）the upper social class D）people in Holland
Passage 17
A mysteriousblack cloudapproaches the earth-our planet's weather is verely affected.
Throughout the rest of June and July temperatures ro steadily all over the Earth. In the British isles the temperature climbed through the eighties, into the nineties, and moved towards the hundred mark. People complained, but there was no rious disaster.
The death number in the U. S. Remained quite small, thanks largely to the air-conditioning units that had been fitted during previous years and months. Temperatures ro to the limit of human endurance throughout the whole country and people were obliged to remain indoors for weeks on end. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities occurred.
Conditions were utterly desperate throughout the tropics（热带地区）as may be judged from the fact that 7943 species of plants and animals became totally extinct. The survival of Man himlf was only possible becau of the caves and cellars（地窖）he was able to dig. Nothing could be done to reduce the hot air temperature. More than ven hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives.
Eventually the temperature of the surface waters of the a ro, not so fast as the air t
emperature it is true, but fast enough to produce a dangerous increa of humidity（湿度）。 It was indeed this increa that produced the disastrous conditions just remarked. Millions of people between the latitudes of Cairo and the Cape of Good Hope were subjected to a choking atmosphere that grew damper and hotter from day to day. All human movement cead. There was nothing to be done but to lie breathing quickly as a dog does in hot weather.绿茶用英语怎么说
