Question

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What percentage of the world’s tea exports go to Britain?

A.Almost 15%. B.About 30%. C.Over 40%.

2.Why do tea tasters taste tea with milk?

A.Most British people drink tea that way.

B.Tea tastes much better with milk.

C.Tea with milk is healthy.

3.Who suggests a price for each tea?

A.Tea tasters. B.Tea exporters. C.Tea companies.

4.What is the speaker talking about?

A.The life of tea tasters.

B.Afternoon tea in Britain.

C.The London Tea Trade Centre.

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.A

4.C

【解析】

【原文】

Look at this picture. It’s the London Tea Trade centre. As you can see, it is on the North Bank of the River Thames. It is the center of an important industry in the everyday life of the British people. Tea is the British national drink. Every man, woman and child over ten years of age, has an average over four cups a day, or some one thousand five hundred cups annually. About 30 percent of the world’s export of tea makes its way to London. And Britain is by far the largest importer of tea in the world.

Now in the second picture, you can see how tea is tasted in the Tea Trade Centre before it is sold. Here, different types of tea are tasted by skilled tea-tasters before they are sold at each week’s tea sale. It’s amazing to see them at work! Over a hundred kinds of tea are laid out in a line on a long table. The tasters generally taste tea with milk, since that is how the majority of British people drink their tea. The tasters move down the line with surprising speed, tasting from a spoon and deciding what is a fair price for each tea. After that, they