Part 2: Summarizing an Author’s Viewpoint in an Informational Text
Question 29 • CA-English Language Arts 12 B – 1744
Read the excerpt from "Early Victorian Tea Set” by Neil MacGregor.As it got cheaper, tea also spread rapidly to the working classes. By 1800, as foreigners remarked, it was the new national drink. By 1900 the average tea consumption per person in Britain was a staggering 6 lbs (3 kilograms) a year. In 1809 the Swede Erik Gustav Geijer commented:Next to water, tea is the Englishman’s proper element. All classes consume it . . . in the morning one may see in many places small tables set up under the open sky, around which coal-carters and workmen empty their cups of delicious beverage.
Answer
A
It describes the way tea became popular in Great Britain.
B
It shows how many wars were started as tea became desired.
C
It illustrates the popularity of tea in Britain during the 1800s.
D
It argues that tea is not originally from Great Britain.
Explanation
The excerpt says tea had become the “new national drink” by 1800 and that people from all classes drank it. Geijer’s observation of coal-carriers and workmen drinking tea shows how widely popular it was in Britain during the 1800s. The passage does not discuss wars or where tea originated.
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