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先通读下面两篇短文,读懂大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
People in the West didn’t know coffee or tea two hundred years ago. They were 1 to drink them because they thought coffee or tea could kill a person. Once the king of England decided to find out 2 it was true.
There were two brothers in prison(监狱) at that time.They would be killed 3 a few days because they did wrong. The king said, "I shall let them live but they must drink coffee or tea to the end of their lives. One brother must drink coffee and 4 must drink tea every day." And they followed the king's words.
They both lived many years. At last, the elder brother died when he was eighty-three years old.The younger one died a few years later. After that, people 5 that coffee and tea were not bad to man.
1.A.strong B.rich C.happy D.afraid
2.A.because B.if C.what D.when
3.A.in B.after C.behind D.later
4.A.one B.another C.the other D.other
5.A.knew B.spoke C.kept D.shouted