Question

Find the missing sentence:

A. No one knows when tea was first discovered, or how it came to be such a popular drink.
B. ____________________________________________________
C. Records going back to the fourth century A.D. refer to tea.

• A. By the eighth century A.D. most Chinese were drinking tea, both because they liked it as a beverage and for its medicinal value.
• B. Tea was so popular that one of the most distinguished poets of the Tang dynasty, a man called Lu Yu, even wrote a holy scripture about it.
• C. The beverage is generally accepted to have originated in China hundreds of years ago.
• D. It was called Cha's Ching, which, translated, means Tea Scripture

Answer 1

The correct option is C The beverage is generally accepted to have originated in China hundreds of years ago.

The first sentence speaks about the discovery of tea. The second sentence must talk about its country of origin or where it first became popular. Hence, Option C is correct. The rest of the options talk about its spread to other countires.