专题11.阅读回答问题（期末真题精练精析）-2022-2023学年第二学期七年级英语期末考点梳理+期末真题精练精析（江苏专用）

阅读回答问题（期末真题精练精析） 2021-2022淮安市淮安区 阅读下面短文，根据要求完成下列各题。 Once an unhappy young man came to an old man because he was very sad. He asked how to be happy. The old man told the unhappy young man to put a small bag of salt into a glass of water and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” the old man asked. “Terrible.” answered the young man. The old man smiled and asked the young man to take another small bag of salt and put it into the river. They walked without any words to the river and the young man put the salt into the river. Then the old man said, “Now drink the water from the river.” The young man did so and the old man asked, “How does it taste?” “Nice!” answered the young man. “Can you taste the salt?” asked the old man. “No.” said the young man. The old man took the young man’s hands and said, “The pain (痛苦) of life is the salt; no more, no less. It is always the same, the only thing you can do is to be a person like a river, not a glass!” 根据上面短文的内容回答问题（每小题答案不超过6个单词）。 78. Why did the young man come to see the old man? ________________________________ 79. Who told the young man to put a small bag of salt into a glass of water? ________________________________ 80. Where did they go after the young man tasted the terrible water from the glass? ________________________________ 81. What is like salt according to (根据) the old man? ________________________________ 82. What kind of person should we be? ________________________________ 【答案】78. Because he was very sad/unhappy/wasn’t happy. 79. The/An old man. 80. They went to a river/To a river. 81. The pain of life. 82. A person like a river. 【解析】本文主要讲述的是一个年轻人向一个老人询问快乐的秘诀。 78根据“Once an unhappy young man came to an old man because he was very sad.”可知是因为他非常悲伤/不开心。故填Because he was very sad/unhappy/wasn’t happy. 79根据“The old man told the unhappy young man to put a small bag of salt into a glass of water and then to drink it.”可知老人告诉那个不幸的年轻人把一小袋盐放进一杯水中，然后喝下去，故填The/An old man. 80根据“They walked without any words