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Britain. The history of tea in Britain provided an extraordinary coincidence of dates. Tea was relatively
expensive until Britain started direct hade with China in the early 18th century. By the 1740s, about the time
that infant mortality was falling, the drink was common. Macfarlane guesses that the fact that water had to
be boiled, together with the stomach-purifying properties of tea so eloquently described in Buddhist texts,
meant that the breast milk provided by mothers was healthier than it had ever been. No other European
nation drank tea so often as the British, which, by Macfarlane's logic, pushed the other nations out of the
race for the Industrial Revolution.
G. But, if tea is a factor in the puzzle, why didn't this cause an industrial revolution in Japan?
Macfarlane notes that in the 17th century, Japan had large cities, high literacy rates and even a futures
market. However, Japan decided against a work-based revolution, by giving up labor-saving devices even
animals, to avoid putting people out of work. Astonishingly, the nation that we now think of as one of the
most technologically advanced, entered the 19
th
century having almost abandoned the wheel. While Britain
was undergoing the Industrial Revolution, Macfarlane notes wryly, Japan was undergoing an industrious
one.
Questions 1-6 Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? True if the statement agrees with the information False if the statement contradicts the information NOT GIVEN If there is no information on this Q1. The industrialization did not happen in China because of its inefficient railway transportation.
