B）Tea reached Britain from Holland.

　　C）The Britons were the first people in Europe who drank tea.

　　D）It was not until the 17th century that the Britons had tea.
　　
　　77. This passage mainly discusses　　　　　.
　　
　　A）the history of tea drinking in Britain

　　B） how tea became a popular drink in Britain

　　C）how the Britons got the habit of drinking tea

　　D）how tea-time was born
　　
　　78. Tea became a popular drink in Britain　　　　　.
　　
　　A）in eighteenth century   　　B）in sixteenth century

　　C）in seventeenth century 　　D）in the late seventeenth century
　　
　　79. People in Europe began to drink tea with milk because　　　　　.
　　
　　A）it tasted like milk

　　B） it tasted more pleasant

　　C）it became a popular drink

　　D）Madame de Sevinge was such a lady with great social influence that people tried to copy the way she drank tea
　　
　　80. We may infer from the passage that the habit of drinking tea in Britain was mostly due to the influence of　　　　　.
　　
　　A）a famous French lady 　　B）the ancient Chinese

　　C）the upper social class　　 D）people in Holland
　　
　　Passage 17
　　
　　A mysteriousblack cloudapproaches the earth-our planet's weather is severely affected.
　　
　　Throughout the rest of June and July temperatures rose steadily all over the Earth. In the British isles the temperature climbed through the eighties, into the nineties, and moved towards the hundred mark. People complained, but there was no serious disaster.
　　
　　The death number in the U. S. Remained quite small, thanks largely to the air-conditioning units that had been fitted during previous years and months. Temperatures rose to the limit of human endurance throughout the whole country and people were obliged to remain indoors for weeks on end. Occasionally air-conditioning units failed and it was then that fatalities occurred.
　　
　　Conditions were utterly desperate throughout the tropics（热带地区）as may be judged from the fact that 7943 species of plants and animals became totally extinct. The survival of　Man himself was only possible because of the caves and cellars（地窖）he was able to dig. Nothing could be done to reduce the hot air temperature. More than seven hundred million persons are known to have lost their lives.
　　
　　Eventually the temperature of the surface waters of the sea rose, not so fast as the air temperature it is true, but fast enough to produce a dangerous increase of humidity（湿度）. It was indeed this increase that produced the disastrous conditions just remarked. Millions of people between the latitudes of Cairo and the Cape of Good Hope were subj

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