完形填空
河北真题剖析
(2018·河北中考)
Ⅵ.完形填空(共10小题，每小题1分，计10分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Once there was a king and his daughter. The king asked his daughter how much she loved him. She said that she loved him as much as the loved 36 . Her answer made the king very happy. Salt is a simple thing, 37 it is very important. So the king thought his daughter cared a lot about him.
Salt has many 38 . Our bodies need salt. If we don't have enough, our bodies can't work properly. We put salt on icy roads to make them 39 ．We also use salt to produce other products, like paper and glass. But for many years, salt's most important job was to 40 food. Like other living things, most bacteria(细菌) need water to live. Salt takes in plenty of water, so most bacteria cannot live 41 a salty environment. As a result, salt protects food and many other things. For much of human history, this ability has made salt 42 . Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depended on salt. Even today, the hardworking, useful people are 43 as “the salt of the earth”．
For centuries, salt was also hard to 44 . Its usefulness, together with rarity(稀有) made it very expensive. Salt could even be used like 45 . In fact, the word salary(薪水) comes from the word salt.
Today, salt is used more widely and it still plays an important role in our life.
36．A.salt B．air C．gold D．sugar
37．A.or B．so C．and D．but
38．A.forms B．secrets C．uses D．skills
39．A.wide B．safe C．smooth D．thick
40．A.protect B．provide C．produce D．prepare
41．A.in B．outside C．for D．without
42．A.hopeful B．comfortable
C．valuable D．successful
43．A.saved B．dreamed
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C．invited D．described
44．A.sell B．get C．take D．keep
45．A.money B．medicine
C．earth D．food
参考答案
【篇章导读】本文通过讲述国王的女儿爱国王就像喜爱食盐一样的故事，引出对盐的重要用途的介绍。
【答案与解析】
36．A 由下文提示“Salt is a simple thing...”可知，此处国王的女儿爱国王就像喜欢盐一样，故选A。
37．D 结合语境可知，前后两句句意存在转折关系，故选转折连词but。
38．C 结合后文可知，盐有很多用途，故此处总结概括本段的内容，故选C。
39．B 根据常识可知，盐可以让冰雪融化得更快，从而让道路变得安全，故选B。
40．A 结合后文可知盐可以吸收很多水分，从而使得细菌无法存活，故起到保护食物的作用，故选A。
41．A 结合语境可知，此处表示盐能够吸收大量的水分，因此大部分细菌在很咸的环境中不能生存，故此处表示在咸的环境中，故用介词in。
42．C 结合前后文可知盐有很多用途，故盐是有价值的，hopeful“有希望的”；comfortable“舒服的”；valuable“有价值的”；successful“成功的”。故选C。
43．D 结合前文可知，盐用途很多，很有价值，故此处表示当今那些努力工作、有用的人才经常被描述成“地球上的盐”。save“拯救”；dream“做梦；梦想”；invite“邀请”；describe“描述”。故选D。
44．B 结合后文“Its usefulness, together with rarity made it very expensive.”可知盐因为很稀有，很昂贵所以很难得到。故选B。
45．A 由本段最后一句可知，盐甚至能像钱一样被使用。故选A。
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