四川南充市2016高中高考英语 暑假阅读类训练8.docVIP

四川南充市2016高中高考英语 暑假阅读类训练8 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的A,B,C或D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 Getting rid of dirt, in the opinion of most people, is a good thing. However, there is nothing fixed about attitudes to dirt. In the early 16th century, people thought that dirt on the skin was a means to block out disease, as medical opinion had it that washing off dirt with hot water could open up the skin and let ills in. A particular danger was thought to lie in public baths. By 1538, the French king had closed the bath houses in his kingdom. So did the king of England in 1546. Thus began a long time when the rich and the poor