阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。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 36 . Her answer made the king very happy. Salt is simple thing, 37 it is very important. So the king thought his daughter cared a lot about him.
Salt has many 38 . Our bodies need salt. If we don’t have enough, our bodies can’t work properly. We put salt on icy roads to make them 39 . We also use salt to produce other products, like paper and glass. But for many years, salt’s most important job was to 40 food. Like other living things, most bacteria(细菌) need water to live. Salt takes in plenty of water, so most bacteria(细菌) can not live 41 a salty environment. As a result, salt protects food and many other things. For much of human history, this ability has made salt 42 . Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depended on salt. Even today, the hard working useful people are 43 as “the salt of the earth”.
For centuries, salt was also hard to 44 . Its usefulness, together with rarity(稀有) made it very expensive. Salt could even be used like 45 . In fact, the word salary(薪水) comes from the word salt.
Today, salt is used more widely and it still plays an important role in our life.
36. A. salt B. air C. gold D. sugar
37. A. orB. soC. and D. but
38. A. forms B. secretsC. usesD. skills
39. A. wideB. safeC. smoothD. thick
40. A. protectB. provideC. produceD. prepare
41. A. inB. outsideC. forD. without
42. A. hopefulB. comfortableC. valuable D. successful
43. A. saved B. dreamed C. invited D. described
44. A. sell B. get C. take D. keep
45. A. money B. medicine C. earth D. food
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