江苏省各地2019届高三上学期10月英语试卷精选汇编:阅读理解.doc
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1、 阅读理解金陵中学10月月考第四部分:阅读理解(30分)AA: On todays Words and Their Stories we talk about a common word, a small word, but a word that is completely necessary for human life. In fact, without this simple, everyday material, all humans would die. B: Scientists know it as sodium chloride. We know it as salt. Yo
2、u 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. A: Without salt our muscles would not move. Our nervous systems would not operate. Our hearts would not beat. Salt means life. But do not think rubbing salt in a wound w
3、ill help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. To rub salt in a wound is an idiom that means to purposefully make a bad situation worse. B: 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, huma
4、ns needed to find other sources. A: 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. B: Salt also played
5、 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 explored the world. Salt meant movement. A: Salt also changed the way nations fought. With preserved fo
6、od on ships, nations could sail to distant lands and then attack them. Salt meant power. B: Salt was so important that, according to food historians, it was traded pound-for-pound for gold. Today, people still use the expressions to be worth ones salt or worth ones weight in salt. The expressions de
7、scribe a person who is useful, a person of value. A: A person might also be called salt of the earth. That description means he or she is dependable and trustworthy. The phrase comes from the Christian Bible. Jesus called his loyal group of followers - or disciples - the salt of the earth. B: But on
8、e of these disciples was not so loyal. The disciple Judas betrayed Jesus. In his famous painting The Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci shows Judas spilling a bowl of salt. Spilled salt is a sign of bad luck and trouble. And trouble is exactly what Judas gave Jesus. A: Even today, some people throw salt
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