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题组七
一、完形填空A)】
15 they felt like it.
Britons are well known for the amount of()1.A.even
B.just
tea that they drink.The average person in the
C.around
D.above
UK consumes(消费)around1.9 kg of tea
(
)2.A.common
B.simple
every year.That's I 876 cups of tea.Tea
C.perfect
D.important
is drunk by all classes of society.But tea is not()3.A.came from
B.came across
native to Britain.Most tea is grown in India
C.came out
D.came about
and China.So,how did it become a(n)2(
)4.A.inexpensive
B.helpful
part of British culture?
C.available
D.seldom
Tea arrived in London in the 1600s.At ()5.A.parts
B.ways
that time,British ships were exploring the
C.facts
D.choices
world and 3 the drink in China.It was not ()6.A.product
B.price
long before green tea was 4 to buy.How-
C.number
D.amount
ever,this was only available to the richer(
)7.A.arrived
B.reached
5 of society.
C.went
D.touched
At the beginning of the 1700s,the 6
(
)8.A.recently
B.exactly
of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually.
C.especially
D.carefully
Black tea 7 at this time.At first,people(
)9.A.mixed
B.smelt
drank this tea 8 as it was in China.They
C.looked
D.sounded
soon discovered that it 9 really well with a()10.A.scientific
B.spare
little milk and sugar,giving the drink a 10
C.special
D.strange
British characteristic(特色).
)11.A.cake
B.candy
In the 1800s,tea was still a product en-
C.biscuit
D.snack
joyed only by people with money.At this time,(
)12.A.secret
B.tradition
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they began to have“afternoon tea”.This in-
C.standard
D.trade
cluded drinking tea with a 11
around
(
)13.A.They
B.He
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4 p.m.to avoid feeling hungry between lunch
C.It
D.She
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and dinner.It is a 12 that is still going to-(
)14.A.appear
B.remain
day.
C.shut
D.manage
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In the late 1800s,the price of tea de-(
)15.A.whoever
B.wherever
creased sharply as more tea began to arrive on
C.whichever
D.whenever
ships from India and China.13 was no
二、选择型阅读理解
longer a drink just for rich people.Tearooms
Chinese researchers reached the top of Qo-
started to 14 acr