【原】A little effort every day

2018河北中考完形填空解析

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 she 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 hard-working, 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. produceD. prepare

41. A. in       B. outside    C. for       D. without

42. A. hopeful  B. comfortable  C. valuable  

     D. successful

43. A. saved B. dreamed C. invited D. described

44. A. sell      B. get         C. take         D. keep

45. A. money B. medicine    C. earth      D. food

【keys】：36-40 ADCBA   41-45 ACDBA

【语篇解读】：本文从一个小故事入手，讲了盐的用途，在日常生活中的应用，以及它的药用价值。同时因为它的稀有性，在古今中外都起着很重要的作用并且非常受重视。

【逐题解析】：

36.【解析】考查名词辨析。从“Salt is a simple thing,    it is very important.” 能看出来应该是“像爱盐一样爱他的爸爸”，故选A。

37.【解析】考查连词。从“simple”和“important”可以看出来是相反关系，所以选D。

38.【解析】考查名词辨析。根据下文“We also use salt to produce other products”可知：盐有很多用途。故选C。

39.【解析】考查形容词辨析。根据句意“把盐放在结冰的路上”可推知：是为了使路面不那么光滑而保持安全。这里要关注them的指代关系：roads，而且有对生活常识的考查。故选B。

40.【解析】考查动词辨析。根据下文“As a result, salt protects food and many other things.”可知：选A。protect, 保护；provide 提供，供应；produce 生产，制作；prepare 准备。

41.【解析】考查介词辨析。根据句意，可知：在有盐的环境里，大部分细菌不能存活。故选A。

42.【解析】考查形容词辨析。根据下文“Its usefulness, together with rarity (稀有)made it very expensive.”可知：使得盐是有价值的。故选C。

43.【解析】考查动词辨析。句意：即使在今天，努力的、有价值的人们被描述成“地球之盐”。故选D。

44.【解析】考查名词辨析。根据下文：“Its usefulness, together with rarity (稀有)made it very expensive.”说明很稀有，很难获得，故选B。

45.【解析】考查名词辨析。根据下文：“In fact, the word salary(薪水)comes from the word salt.”根据薪水这个词来源于盐，可以逆推出“盐甚至被像钱一样使用过”。故选A。