专题04 阅读理解 -【中职专用】辽宁省2013年-2020年对口高考英语分类汇编

专题04 阅读理解 Passage 1 When tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in the 1760s, people had different ideas about their use. Some said that tea and coffee were harmful to humans and they could cause people to die. In Sweden(瑞典), the king decided to find out whether or not this was true. It happened that there were two brothers in prison at that time. They were twins and were almost exactly alike in every way. They had both been sentenced to death(判处死刑). The King decided to let them live if one of the men agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other several cups of coffee. Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind. At last, the brother who had drunk tea every day died at the age of 83, the other died a few years later. Because of the experiment, tea and coffee got accepted(接受) and became popular as drink in Sweden, and it is one of the many countries of the world where much tea and coffee are drunk today. 1. Tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe in ______. A. the 18th century B. the 17th century C. the 16th century D. the 19th century 2. The king decided to find out ______. A. if(是否) tea and coffee were important to people B. if the twin brothers should be sentenced to death C. if tea and coffee did harm to people’s health and caused them to die D. whether tea and coffee were useful or not 3. The King decided to let the brothers live ______. A. if they wanted to obey his rules B. if they agreed to drink tea and coffee every day C. if one of them drank several cups of tea each day while the other had several cups of coffee D. if they agreed to have several cups of tea every day 4. The brother who had drunk tea every day lived ______. A. until he was over 83 B. until he was 83 C. until the other had been dead for several years D. until he had drunk tea for a few years 5. Today the Swedish drink ______. A. much more coffee than tea B. much tea and coffee C. little tea and coffee D. much