For nearly one thousand years, tea is the most common drink in China that is much earlier before any people in Europe ever heard about tea. British people were much slower in knowing what tea was like. The main reason is that tea used to be very expensive, which couldn’t be bought in shops. Moreover, the people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so just because they were curious about tea. Many of them even were not certain about how to use it. Some of them thought it was a kind of vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. They also served them with mixed butter and salt. Though they soon found their mistake, many people used to spread the used tea leaves on bread and eat it as sandwiches.
Tea remained rare and extremely expensive in England until early in the seventeenth century when the East India Company’s ships began to bring it from China. During the next few years much tea came into the country, so that the price fell. Then many people could
A. Tea reached Britain from Holland.
B. The tea from India was very expensive.
C. British people were the earliest group in Europe who drank tea.
D. After the 17th century, the Britons begin to drink tea.
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