单项选择题
| In the United States today, coffee is a
more popular drink (1) tea, but tea played (2)
interesting part in the history of the United States. Before they won
their (3) from Britain, the colonists were forced to
(4) taxes on many goods imported into America. The tax money
was (5) to support colonial governors and officials sent to
the colonies by the British. In 1770 the British Prime Minister had repealed
most of the taxes, but King George (6) on retaining the tax
(7) tea. The King saw the tax as a (8)
of the British right to tax the colonies. American merchants (9)
smuggled nine-tenths of America’s tea into the country and
(10) paying the taxes. (11) the tax savings, the price of tea remained expensive due. to (12) shipping costs. When the British Parliament (13) a new law which would allow British companies to import tea more (14) than American shipping companies, the (15) were alarmed and they (16) a protest. In Boston citizens and merchants, who (17) disguised as Indians, boarded a British ship and (18) ＄15000 worth of tea into the harbor. This protest (19) Great Britain is known as the Boston Tea Party. It was one of the earliest acts of (20) against British rule. |