Question

2. Read the passage given below.
Britain's first taste of tea was belated - the Chinese had been drinking it for
2,000 years. The English diarist, Samuel Pepys, mentions tea in his diary entry from
September 25, 1600. "Tcha," wrote Pepys, the "excellent and by all Physicians
approved, China drink," was sold in England from 1635, for prices as high as £6 to £10
per pound of the herb (£600 to £1,000, today). In 1662, when King Charles II married
the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, her dowry constituted a chest of tea, and
the island of Bombay for an annual lease of £10, equivalent then to the cost of a pound
of tea in England. Catherine, who was used to drinking tea in the Portuguese court, had
her first sip of the beverage in England in May 1662 - the month of her wedding - at
Portsmouth.
In the 18th century, Dutch firm JJ. Voute & Sons ruthlessly exploited the
incapacity of the English East India Company to supply tea to Britain's thriving
domestic elites and coffee houses, smuggling about eight million pounds of tea,
annually. Yet, Dutch tea soon became a "name for all teas that are bad in quality and​

Answer 1

Explanation:

‘China drink’

True

The Dutch firm J.J. Voute & Sons took the advantage of England’s inability to grow tea in the 18th century.

Opium seeds

Portsmouth

Dutch

it had lost much wealth in the Anglo-Dutch war.

had not seen a tea sapling in the 19th century

Answer 2

Answer:

1 ) China drink

2 ) True

3 ) The Dutch firm J.J. Voute & Sons took the advantage of England’s inability to grow tea in the 18th century.

4) Opium seeds

5) Portsmouth

6) Dutch

7) it had lost much wealth in the Anglo-Dutch war.

8) had not seen a tea sapling in the 19th century

Explanation:

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