【单选题】

For nearly one thousand years, tea is the most common drink inChina that is much earlier before any people inEurope ever heard about te

A、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 te
A、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 inEngland until early in the seventeenth century when theEast IndiaCompany’s ships began to bring it fromChin
A、During the next few years much tea came into the country, so that the price fell. Then many people could afford to have it.
Meanwhile, more and more people on theContinent were becoming to like te
A、Till one day,a famous French lady wanted to find out what tea tasted like if milk was addeD、She found it so delicious that she would never drink it without milk again. Since she was a great lady, her friends thought that they must copy the thing she diD、They also drank their tea with milk in it. Then, this habit became wide spread and reachedEnglanD、Today only very fewBritish people drink tea without milk.
Tea was used to be drunk after dinner in the evening. Tea had not been drunk in the afternoon until a duchess found that a cup of tea with some snack at three or four o’clock in the afternoon can help her stop sleeping. Then she invited her friends to enjoy this new kind of meal with her. This is what to be called afternoon tea later.
Why did the people inEurope begin to drink tea with milk
A、People thought it tasted like milk.
B、People found they were more familiar with the taste.
C、The French lady was so famous that people tried to copy the way she drank te
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D、For this way they can also have some snack.