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【題目】閱讀理解
You may think, salt is just a simple cooking element we shake on our food for a little extra taste. But salt is much more than that. Without salt our muscles would not move. Our nervous systems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat.
But do not think rubbing salt into a wound will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. “To rub salt into a wound” is an idiom that means to purposefully make a bad situation worse.
Early humans got the salt they needed to stay alive from the animals they killed. But advances in agriculture led to a diet low in salt. So, humans needed to find other sources. Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucky. Those who did not had to trade for salt. In fact, people used salt as a method of payment in many parts of the ancient world. The word “salary” comes from the word “salt”.
Salt also played an important part in population movement and world exploration. Explorers understood that if they could keep food fresh, they could travel longer distances. So they used salt to preserve food and explore the world.
Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound for gold. Today, people still use the expressions “worth one's salt” or “worth one's weight in salt”. The expressions describe a person of value.
A person might also be called “salt of the earth”. That description means he or she is dependable and trustworthy. However, when you say “I think we should take what he said with a grain of salt”you mean you accept it but maintain a degree of doubt about its truth.
（1）What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A.Salt plays an important part in our life.
B.Salt makes food tasty.
C.Salt is considered to be part of our muscles.
D.Salt is sure to damage nervous systems.
（2）A beggar's bread was stolen last night, which means_________.
A.salt of the earth
B.rubbing salt in a wound
C.a diet low in salt
D.worth his salt
（3）If you describe a person as a great help, you mean_________ .
A.he rubs salt in a wound
B.he is often taken as a grain of salt
C.he often uses salt to preserve meat
D.he is worth his weight in salt
（4）Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.Salt Is More Than a Four-letter Word.
B.Salt Is a Basic Element in Cooking.
C.Salt Is a Word with a Long History.
D.Salt Is Popular with Different People.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）A
（2）B
（3）D
（4）A
【解析】本文主要介紹了鹽的重要作用及許多與鹽有關(guān)的詞匯表達(dá)。
（1）推理判斷題。通讀第一段可知，本段講述鹽不僅是一種調(diào)味品，而且鹽對(duì)于我們的肌肉、神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)和心臟起著決定性作用，鹽意味著生命。所以答案是A。
（2）推理判斷題。“乞丐的面包昨天晚上被偷了”意味著原本一貧如洗的人連最基本的賴以生存的食物都沒有了，這猶如傷口上撒鹽，讓情況變得更加糟糕。所以答案是B。
（3）推理判斷題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段中的句子“Today, people still use the expressions “worth one's salt” or “worth one's weight in salt”. The expressions describe a person of value.”可知，鹽是如此重要，今天人們?nèi)耘f使用“worth one's salt” 或者 “worth one's weight in salt”來描述那些重要人物。所以答案是D。
（4）標(biāo)題判斷題�？v觀全文可知，文章主要講述了與“salt”有關(guān)的習(xí)語表達(dá)，鹽在人們的生活中是至關(guān)重要的，因此也衍生出許多與鹽有關(guān)的日常表達(dá)。因此推斷A“鹽不僅僅是一個(gè)四個(gè)字母的單詞”為最佳標(biāo)題。所以答案是A。