A set of 4 sentences (A, B, C and D in the same order) have been given in the above question followed by five option choices. From the option choice provided look for the option choice that acts as the fifth sentence (conclusion) for the statements mentioned.

A. Britain’s first taste of tea was belated — the Chinese had been drinking it for 2,000 years.

B. The English diarist, Samuel Pepys, mentions tea in his diary entry from September 25, 1600.

C. “Tcha”, wrote Pepys, the excellent and by all Physicians approved, China drink, was sold in England from 1635, for prices as high as £6 to £10 per pound of the herb (£600 to £1,000, today).

D. In 1662, when King Charles II married the Portuguese princess, Catherine of Braganza, her dowry constituted a chest of tea, and the island of Bombay for an annual lease of £10, equivalent then to the cost of a pound of tea in England