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 heard about it, but very few of them know what to do with it.
There is a story about an English sailor(水手) who went to countries in the east, the west and the south. Once he went to India and China. He bought some tea. One day he came home and brought the tea as a present for his mother. His mother told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”. When her friends came to the “”, the old woman offered them brown tea—leaves. The old woman’s friends began to eat them. Of course, everyone didn’t like 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.”anwered the old woman.
“Now you may throw away the leaves, too,”said her son.
Most of the people in Europe______.
A. drank tea every day 300 years ago
B. liked to eat the tea—leaves  C. knew nothing about tea
One day the English sailor brought some tea from_____.
A.countries in the west
B. India or China
C. countries in the south
The sailor’s mother asked her friends to her house, because_____.
A. she liked to show off(炫耀)
B. she wanted to ask her friends what to do with the tea
C.she wanted to sample(品尝)the tea together with her friends
At the “tea party”,_______.
A. nobody knew what to do with the tea
B. the woman offered her friends some dried tea
C.the woman gave her friends each a glass of tea water
What mistake did the old woman make?
A. She boiled the tea.
B. She did as the sailor said.
C. She poured away the water.