RBI Grade B Officers 16 Aug 2018 Paper

Question : 169 of 200

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A set of 4 sentences (A, B, C and D in the same order) have been given in the above question followed by five option choices. From the option choice provided look for the option choice that acts as the fifth sentence (conclusion) for the statements mentioned.
A. Britain’s first taste of tea was belated — the Chinese had been drinking it for 2,000 years.
B. The English diarist, Samuel Pepys, mentions tea in his diary entry from September 25, 1600.
C. “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).
D. 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.
Still, British tea cultivators were extremely anxious to have Chinese tea and techniques brought to India.
A decade later, in 1843, Robert Fortune, a Scottish horticulturalist, independently travelled to China to study its tea plantations.
His travels were funded by the Royal Horticultural Society that was eager to extract plant samples and botanical intelligence from China in the wake of the Treaty of Nanking, signed in 1842, that ended the First Opium War.
In the autumn of 1848, Fortune entered China on a great espionage mission, accompanied by his servant Wang, whom he refers to in his account simply as ‘coolie’.

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