[单项选择]We drink tea every day. But more than three hundred years ago, most of the people in Europe did not know (41) about tea, because it was (42) in Asia. There is a (43) about an English sailor. (44) he went to India and China. When he came home, he brought some (45) as a present to his mother. She told her friends about the present and (46) them to a tea party. When her friends came to the tea party, the old woman brought some tea (47) and asked them to eat. Of course, nobody liked the tea leaves.
Just (48) the sailor came in. He looked at the tea leaves on the table and asked his mother, "What have you done (49) the tea"
"I boiled it as you said." "And what did you do with the water" the sailor asked.
"I (50) it away, of course," answered the woman.
"Now you may throw away the leaves, too." said her son.
A. told B. asked C. sent