We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people had heard about it, however, very few of them knew what to do with it.

There is a story about an English sailor who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. He had been to India and China. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”. When her friends came to the “tea party”, the old woman offered them brown tea-leaves. The old woman’s friends began to eat them. Of course, nobody liked the tea leaves.

At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, “Mother, what have you done with the tea?”

“I boiled it as you said.”

“And what did you do with the water?”

“I threw it away, of course.” answered the old woman.

“Now you may throw away the leaves, too.” said her son.

1．More than three centuries ago, _____________.

A．most Europeans began to drink tea

B．some people in Europe drank tea every day

C．only a few people drank tea

D．few people in Europe knew about tea

2．The sailor ______________.

A．gave his mother some tea as a gift         B．didn’t know what to do with the tea

C．offered to hold a “tea party”                 D．told his mother what to do with the tea

3．At the tea party, the mother ____________.

A．gave her friends some tea                     B．sell her friends some tea

C．a(chǎn)sked her friends to eat the tea-leaves    D．suggested throwing away the tea

4．The old woman made a mistake, ______________.

A．so she threw the tea away

B．because she didn’t know what to do with the tea

C．a(chǎn)nd nobody was fond of drinking tea

D．for she boiled the tea

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