上海中考英语模拟卷练习

In Sweden, King Gustaf Ⅲ decided to find out whether this was true or false. It happened that there were two brothers who were in prison at the time; they were twins and were almost exactly alike in every way. They had both been sentenced to death. The king decided to let them live if one of them agreed to drink several cups of tea each day and the other, several cups of coffee each day.

Both brothers lived many years without problems of any kind. At last, the brother who had to drink tea every day died at the age of eighty-three; the other died a few years later.

Because of the experiment, Sweden is today one of the countries of the world where much tea and coffee are drunk.

(   ) 78 Tea and coffee were first introduced to Europe about _____ ago.

A 300 years  B 200 years  C 100 years  D 400 years

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