专题 27 The Humble Tea Bag 不起眼的茶包备战高考英语外刊精读与练习 （教师版）.pdfVIP

专题 27 The Humble Tea Bag 不起眼的茶包 备战2021年高考英语外刊精读与练习 （教师版） 话题导读： 世界很多国家和地区的人民都有饮茶的习俗。不论是大口地喝，还是小口地抿，喜爱喝茶的人处 处可见。有些人喜欢用茶叶，有些人喜欢用茶包。茶包虽然方便，但茶包中所含的塑料微颗粒物质加重了 全球塑料问题。本文讨论如何才能使我们最喜欢的饮品不污染环境。 Step 1 Vocabulary词汇表 teadrinker 喜欢喝茶的人 teabag 茶包 brew 泡茶；酿造 premium 高级的，优质的 drink 饮品 microplastics 微塑料 consume 喝，饮用 drinkingwater 饮用水 slurp compost … 咕嘟咕嘟地喝 把 制成堆肥 sip 小口喝，抿 polypropylene 聚丙烯 glug 大口喝 biodegradable 可生物降解的 pour 倒 beverage 饮料 pot 壶 notbe someone’scup oftea 非某人所好，不合 infused 泡 （茶） 某人的心意 brewed 冲泡 loose-leaftea 散装茶叶 Step 2Reading Areyou atea drinker?If so,you’renot alone.Every day aroundtheworldmillionsofcupsof this popular brew are drunk, and it’s been that way for thousands of years. The oldest discovered tea isfrom theHan Dynasty,dating from 206BCto220AD.But it’sthought that theteatrendreally took off duringthe Tang Dynasty in the 8th Century,when it became China’snational drink.Now, Turkey, the Republic of Ireland and the UK are believed tobe thebiggest tea-drinking nations,per capita. Tea is consumed in many ways – slurped, sipped or glugged. It can be poured from pots, infused or brewed in the cup using tea bags – and it’s this latter process that is causing concern. Research last year found some premium tea bags might be leaving billions of microscopic plastic particles in the cup. Scientists from McGill University in Montreal found that some ‘plastic’ tea bags shed high levels of microplastics into water. However, The World Health Organization says suchparticlesin drinkingwaterdono