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封丘一中高二下学期开学英语考卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给ABCD中选出最佳答案，并在答案卷上将其涂黑。A You may think, salt is just a simple cooking element we put in our food for a little extra taste. But salt is much more than that. 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 into the wound will help. Doing that would be painful and not heal the wound. To rub salt into the wound is an idiom that means to purposefully make a bad situation worse. Those who lived near the ocean or other natural sources for salt were lucky. Those people did not have 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. Salt also played 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. Salt also changed the way nations fought. With preserved food on ships, nations could sail to distant lands and then attack people there. Salt meant power. 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 one’s salt or worth one’s weight in salt. The expressions describe a person who is useful and valuable.A person might also be called the 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 followers or disciples(信徒) the salt of the earth. But one of these disciples was not so loyal. The disciple Judas betrayed Jesus. In the 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 was exactly what Judas gave Jesus. In 2200 BC, the Chine