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北大曹其军老师英语阅读理解 20 篇(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
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 tea. Until 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 added. She 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 o ’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling ” as she called it. She invi
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