完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项
We have no idea about
1 men first began to use salt. But we do know that it had been used in many different ways __
2 ___ the history.
For example, in many history books it is _
_3 _ that people who lived three thousand years ago __
4 __salted fish. Thousands of years ago in Egypt(埃及), salt __
5 _ keep the dead. It can keep the dead bodies __
6 __ decay.(腐烂)
In the eighteenth century, a person who stole salt was __
7 __ to have broken the __
8 __. if a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into __
9 __. Books also record that in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century __
10 __ stealing salt! In the year 1553, if a man took __
11 __ than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be __
12 __ punished(惩罚).
Salt was very __
13 __ on the dinner table of a king. It was always put __1
4 _ the king when he sat down to eat. Then important visitors sat near the salt __15__ less important visitors were given seats farther away from it.
小题1: | A.when | B.where | C.what | D.which | |
小题2: | A.throughout | B.thought | C.though | D.although | |
小题3: | A.say | B.reported | C.recorded | D.reading | |
小题4: | A.eat | B.ate | C.eating | D.have eaten | |
小题5: | A.used to | B.was used to | C.was used | D.used | |
小题7: | A.think | B.consider | C.thoughtful | D.thought | |
小题8: | A.law | B.glass | C.computer | D.time | |
小题9: | A.pool | B.hill | C.prison | D.river | |
小题10: | A.because | B.because of | C.by | D.as | |
小题11: | A.more | B.less | C.fewer | D.most | |
小题12: | A.serious | B.bad | C.terrible | D.seriously | |
小题13: | A.important | B.necessary | C.clever | D.cheerful | |
小题14: | A.in the front of | B.behind | C.in front of | D.before | |
小题15: | A.when | B.as | C.however | D.while | |