Question

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 _______. Her answer made the king very happy. Salt is simple thing, ______ it is very important. So the king thought his daughter cared a lot about him.

Salt has many _______. Bodies need salt. If we don’t have enough, our bodies can't work properly. We put salt on icy roads to make them _______.We also use salt to produce other products, like paper and glass. But for many years salt's most important job was to ______ food. Like other living things, most bacteria (細(xì)菌) need water to live. Salt lakes in plenty of water, so most bacteria (細(xì)菌) can not live ______ a salty environment. As a result, salt protects food and many other things. For much of humans history, this ability has made salt _______. Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depends on suit. Even today, the hard-working useful people are ______ as “the salt of the earth”.

For centuries, salt was also hard to ______ .Its usefulness, together with rarity (稀有) made it very expensive. Salt could even be used like ______ . In fact, the word salary (薪水) comes from the word salt.

Today, salt fs used more widely and it still plays an important role in our life.

1.A.salt B.air C.gold

2.A.and B.so C.but

3.A.forms B.secrets C.uses

4.A.wide B.safe C.smooth

5.A.protect B.provide C.produce

6.A.in B.outside C.for

7.A.hopeful B.comfortable C.valuable

8.A.saved B.dreamed C.described

9.A.sell B.get C.take

10.A.money B.medicine C.earth

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