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                Tea bags

      Using a tea bag is most Westerners ’ favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about?

The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan,àn American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added hot water. The tea tasted good,and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose tea (散裝茶) again.

     Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands,and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular,they were changed from silk to gauze and later paper. In 1952,Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the foursided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK,and today 85% of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags.

       However,many people still prefer loose-leaf tea. This is because some tea companies put poor quality tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers,tea bags are still the easy and tasty way to go.

  

() 1. Who invented the tea bag?

   A. A Chinese man. B. A Japanese man.

   C. An American man. D. An Italian man.

() 2. The tea in silk bags was welcomed because .

   A. the tea in bags was free   B. it was easy to wash cups

   C. people didn ’ t  like the loose tea   D. it was cheaper than the loose tea

() 3. The underlined sentence “Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK” probably means .

   A. tea bags soon became popular in the UK

   B. tea bags were not used a lot in the UK

   C. tea bags weren¹1 invented in the UK

   D. tea bags turned bad quickly in the UK

() 4. The reading mainly talks about .

   A. the invention of tea   B. the way of drinking tea

   C. the history of tea bags   D. people ’ s favorite tea in the world

Answer 1

本文講述了茶包的起源和使用，以及其優(yōu)點。

1. C 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段“The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan,an American tea seller. ” 可知，一個美國人發(fā)明了茶包，故選C項。

2. B 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段“The tea tasted good,and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. ” 可知，人 們認為茶包的發(fā)明使清洗杯子更方便Y，故選B項。

3. A 細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段“and today 85% of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags. ” 可知茶包在英國 很流行，故選A項。

4. C 主旨大意題。根據(jù)全文內(nèi)容可知，文章講述茶包的發(fā)展歷史，故選C項。