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Every morning we like to begin our day with a cup of tea. We drink tea every day. But three hundred years ago people in Europe didn’t know anything about tea.
There is a story of an English sailor who brought home some tea leaves as a present for his mother.
She told her friends about the present and asked them for dinner to try ‘tea’. When her friends came, the old woman brought in a dish and put it on the table. There were brown leaves of tea on it. The guests began to eat these leaves, but, of course, nobody liked them. At that moment the sailor came in. He looked at the table, smiled and said:
“Mother, what have you done with those tea leaves?”
“I have boiled them as you told me to do.”
“And where is the water?”
“I threw it away, of course,” answered the poor woman.
“Now you may throw the leaves away too,” said her son.
Then he boiled the tea leaves again, and treated his guests with water. This time the guests liked it.
The friends of sailor’s mother . . .
A) began to drink tea
B) began to eat the leaves
C) began to eat cakes
D) began to boil the leaves
E) began to drink coffee
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