单选题 There seems to be a close relationship between drinks and one's life.
The adolescent(少年)usually loves soft drinks for their sweetness and variety. He knows nothing of sadness and his taste of life is sweetness to the exclusion of all the others. In his eyes, the world is full of facets just as soft drinks are varied in flavor.
Youth sees him on a job or in love. Now, soft drinks will have to give way to coffee, which is bitter yet somewhat sweet and fragrant. It gives a stimulating sensation suggestive of maturity, appealing to him, as he is fickle and moody. At his stage, he begins his career full of ambition and ideals, on the other hand he also needs and aspires after a home of his own. However, either his work or his love affairs may bring small setbacks, for which he is sometimes seen forcing a tearful smile and sometimes smiling through his tears. Considerations of gains and losses seem to him an enjoyment as well as a torture.
Middle age turns him to Chinese tea that gives a delicate fragrance very gradual to come out, only discernable off and on. It is bland an elegant, deep and profound. It never stimulates your sense of taste but a lip of it will leave a faint fragrance lingering in your mouth, Free from impractical longings and fully aware of the evanescent of the sunset, he cherishes every minute of the day and each day of his is sweetened with a simple but real happiness.
The elderly drinks plain boiled water which is devoid of saccharin, caffeine or theophyline (茶碱). It tastes insipid yet a slow sipping will doubtless yield a wee bit of sweetness. He has been tossed in life's storms and taught by rough and bitter experience to know better than to care about glories and successes which appear to him now as transient as a fleeting cloud. For this is the time he can sit comfortable in an armchair letting his mind wander. All that happened in the past and all that exist in the world seem to him as plain and insipd as water...

单选题 The passage could be entitled ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】文章第一句“There seems to be a close relationship between drinks and one's life．”是文章的主旨句。接下来的四段均围绕该主旨句展开论述，对人生四个阶段所喜爱的饮品及其原因进行了说明。故B最适合。
单选题 According to the passage, the adolescent loves soft drinks because ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】从第二段前两句“...for their sweetness and variety．He knows nothing of sadness and his taste of life is sweetness...，可知A说法与此一致。B和 D文章未提到。C不是根本原因，故不对。因此A为正确答案。
单选题 According to the passage, young people love coffee because of ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】第三段第一句和最后一句是此题的答案所在：青年人在工作和爱情方面的苦乐导致他们喜欢喝略带苦味的咖啡。因此B为正确答案。
单选题 Why do the middle-aged people prefer tea according to the author?
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】第四段指出，中年人喜欢喝茶是由于他们喜欢中国茶叶那股若有若无的幽香，让人回味无穷，给人以平淡而真实的欢乐。A、C、和D说法均不对，B为正确答案。
单选题 The phrase "as plain and insipid as water" implies that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】该短语出现在文章结尾。文章最后…—段主要是描述老年人喜欢喝白开水的原因。其中指出，老年人喝白开水，认为生活就象水一样，一切的一切都淡如水。也就是说，他们能以平静的心态接受一切。D说法与此一致，为正确答案。