2015年3月14日雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：The history of tea

2015年3月14日雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：The history of tea

The story of tea begins in China. According to legend, in 2737 BC, the Chinese emperor Shen Nung was sitting beneath a tree while his servant boiled drinking water, when some leaves from the tree blew into the water. Shen Nung, a renowned herbalist, decided to try the infusion that his servant had accidentally created. The tree was a Camellia sinensis, and the resulting drink was what we now call tea. It is impossible to know whether there is any truth in this story. But tea drinking certainly became established in China many centuries before it had even been heard of in the West. Containers for tea have been found in tombs dating from the Han Dynasty (206 BC—220 AD) but it was under the Tang Dynasty (618—906 AD), that tea became firmly established as the national drink of China.

It became such a favourite that during the late eighth century a writer called Lu Yu wrote the first book entirely about tea, the Ch’a Ching, or Tea Classic. It was shortly after this that tea was first introduced to Japan, by Japanese Buddhist monks who had travelled to China to study. Tea received almost instant imperial sponsorship and spread rapidly from the royal court and monasteries to the other sections of Japanese society.

So at this stage in the history of tea, Europe was rather lagging behind. In the latter half of the sixteenth century there are the first brief mentions of tea as a drink among Europeans. These are mostly from Portuguese who were living in the East as traders and missionaries. But although some of these individuals may have brought back samples of tea to their native country, it was not the Portuguese who were the first to ship back tea as a commercial import. This was done by the Dutch, who in the last years of the sixteenth century began to encroach on Portuguese trading routes in the East. By the turn of the century they had established a trading post on the island of Java, and it was via Java that in 1606 the first consignment of tea was shipped from China to Holland. Tea soon became a fashionable drink among the Dutch, and from there spread to other countries in continental western Europe, but because of its high price it remained a drink for the wealthy.

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Questions 1-7

Complete the sentences below with words taken from Reading Passage 1

Use ONE WORD for each answer.

Write your answers in boxes 1-7 on your answer sheet.

1 Researchers believed the tea containers detected in 1 【】 from the Han Dynasty was the first evidence of the use of tea.

2 Lu Yu wrote a 2 【】 about tea before anyone else in the eighth century.

3 It was 3【】 from Japan who brought tea to their native country from China.

4 Tea was carried from China to Europe actually by the 4 【】

5 The British government had to cut down the taxation on tea due to the serious crime of 5 【】

6 Tea was planted in 6 【】 besides China in the 19th century.

7 In order to compete in shipping speed, traders used 7【】 for the race.

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