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Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about teaPeople 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 teaUntil 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 addedShe 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 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 oclock 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

【1】Which of the following is true of the introduction of tea into Britain?

A. The Britons got expensive tea from India

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

【2】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

【3】Tea became a popular drink in Britain ________

A. in eighteenth century

B. in sixteenth century

C. in seventeenth century

D. in the late seventeenth century

【4】People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because ________

A. it tasted like milk

B. it tasted more pleasant

C. it became a popular drink

D. Madame de Sevigne was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea

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Mars is not, it seems, the dry old planet we once believed__ __. Astronauts who are__ __to go there in the next decade may find plenty__ __water to slake(消除)their thirst. And with water present the__ __of finding some sort of life on Mars are__ _brighter.

This is the view of forty geologists who have been analyzing____of pictures and other scientific_ __obtained by robot explorers in the sixties and seventies.

To begin with, scientists thought the Red planet was as____as the Moon____dust storms swirling over vast sandy___. But now the picture is very different____mountains and valleys carved by____glaciers and rivers rushing and rumbling deep underground.

In a report on the analysis of the Martian pictures Dr. Michael Car of the U.S. Geological Survey comments: “I am convinced____lots of water on Mars.” Any surface water will be in the____of ice. But it could save explorers from____to take so much____with them.

The report says____Mars probably had a warmer climate in ages____due to its axis (轴) having been more tilted (倾斜) towards the sun.

____signs of plant or animal life have been detected by instruments landed on Mars,____the landing vehicles have been sent there for a few years.

【1】A. it is B.it C.it to be D.was

2A. expected B.hoped C.required D.sent

3A. to B.of C.more D.in

4A. chances B.openings C.occasions D.possibility

5A. quite B.very C.much D.more

6A. a few B.many C.thousand D.thousands

7A. skills B.news C.intelligence D.information

【8】A. peaceful B.quiet C.lifeless D.dead

9 of B.with C.for D.through

【10】A. deserts B.mountains C.rivers D.seas

【11A. from B.between C.for D.with

【12A. energetic B.great C.heavy D.powerful

【13A. there's B.there're C.here's D.here're

【14A. appearance B.way C.form D.shape

【15A. have B.having C.carry D.carrying

【16A. water B.ice C.equipment D.oxygen

【17A. what B.if C.how D.that

【18A. pass B.past C.ago D.before

【19A. Not B.No C.Nor D.Never

20A. probably B.perhaps C.supposed D.although

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