（    ）55．A．living          B．to live          C．dying         D．to die

    在每小题列出的四个选项中，只有一项是正确的。请将正确选项的字母编号写在题号前的括号内。

A

     We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago, most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea, because it was grown in Asia．There is a story about an English sailor. Once he went to India and China．When he came home, he brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to have a tea party. When her friends came to the tea party, the old woman brought out some tea leaves and asked them to eat. Of course nobody liked the tea leaves.

Just then the sailor came in. He looked at the tea leaves on the table and asked his mother, "What have you done with the tea?"

      "I boiled it as you said．"

      "And what did you do with the water?"

      "I threw it away, of course," answered the woman.

      "Now, you may throw away the leaves, too. " Said her son.

（    ）54．A．cut             B．water          C．save          D．study