河南省封丘一中2016-2017学年度高二下学期开学考试英语试题

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 th