2022届高考英语二轮复习分类阅读写作训练之人与社会：历史

2022届高考英语二轮复习分类阅读写作训练之人与社会 历史 一、七选五 （2019·河南许昌·） Legend(传说) says that soap was first discovered on Sappo Hill in Rome. According to legend, a group of Roman women were washing their clothes in the River Tiber at the base of a hill. Then some fat from the dead animals ran down into the river. 1． The women soon found that using that thing made the clothes easier to wash. 2． The evidence for this is Babylonian boxes dated at around 2800 B．C．Words on the boxes present the earliest known written soap recipe, which show how the product was made. They show the product was made from fat combined with wood ash(灰) and water. 3． The Ebers Papyrus shows that ancient Egyptians combined both animal and vegetable oils with salts to produce a soap—like thing. According to Pliny the Elder, the Phoenicians made soap from goats’ fat and wood ash in 600 B．C． Pompeii was one of the cities destroyed by the volcanic eruption (火山爆发)of Mt. Vesuvius in its ruins. The discovery suggests that the industry was started. 4． This is a big discovery for us to study the history of soap. During the early century of the Common Era, although the Romans were well known for their public baths, generally soap was not used for personal cleaning; it was used for the treatment of disease. 5． A．It formed something like soap. B．We can say soap was really important in history. C．So soap wasn't necessarily used for body cleaning then. D．Early Romans began to make soap in the first century A．D． E.Some other countries are also thought to have created soap. F.Also, it suggests that soap was widely known in the Roman Empire. G.However, the ancient Babylonians were the ones who invented soap. 二、阅读理解 A （2021·磐安县第二中学高二期中） In 1944, 730 representatives from 44 allied (同盟) nations met in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, just as World War Ⅱ was ending. They were attending an important conference. This mostly forgotten event shaped our modern world because the Bretton Woods Conference agreed on the establishment of an in