阅读短文,从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在横线上。每空限填一词,每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。
Soap is widely used in our lives around the world. Once soap was a dangerous-to-make hair (1) ____. But it is something that it would be difficult to live without today.
Soap is everywhere. We use it every day and (2) ____ it as something important in our lives. It also has an amazing (3) ____, in Babylon around 2800 B. C., the (4) ____ known soap was made and used. Ancient Egyptians also made soap. At one time, soap-making was not (5) ____.That’s because lye (碱液) (6)____ chemical burns or even made people blind in the making process. Other dangerous materials were also (7) ____ with animal fats and oils. Later, soap became (8) ____ in stores and people gradually stopped making it in their homes.
Originally (最初), soap was not mainly used for (9) ____ . Instead, it was used as gel (凝胶) for making hair stay in place or smell good. The Arabsfirst made the soap that we know today. They created colored, liquid, and hard soaps. They even had soaps which were used for shaving (刮胡子).
Soap became people’s (10) ____ in the late 1800s. Advertising in Europe and the US helped people understand the connection between cleanliness and good health. Now. Soap is something we wouldn’t want to live without.
答案
product,consider,history,earliest,safe,brought,mixed,available,cleaning,favorite
知识点：短文填空
短文主要讲述肥皂的发展历史.曾经它是作为一种在生产中有危险的头发产品,但是现在,肥皂是生活中我们离不开的东西.
第一空：根据句意“曾经它是作为一种有危险去生产的头发产品, ”产品,应是product。
第二空：肥皂很普遍,我们每天使用,把它视为日常用品中很重要的东西。consider…as把……视为。答案选consider。
第三空和第四空：它（肥皂）也有一段令人惊叹的历史,公元前2800年前它最早在古巴比伦被制造出来并得到应用,古埃及也在制造。第三空,填history,第四空,填earliest。
第五空：根据下一句中的“chemical burns”和“made people blind in the making process”可以判断出“曾经制造肥皂是危险的”, not后填safe符合语境。
第六空：前一句讲的是制造肥皂的危险性,空格所在的句子缺少谓语动词,根据语境要填brought。
第七空：be mixed with…混合使用,固定搭配。答案为mixed。另外其他危险的物质例如动物的油脂也被混入当中。
第八空：后来肥皂在商场能买得到,家庭制作不再继续了。答案为available。
第九空：最初,肥皂不是主要用于清洁,而是被当作凝胶用于定型头发,味道很好闻。答案是cleaning。
第十空：根据最后一句“Now. Soap is something we wouldn’t want to live without.
（现在,肥皂是生活中我们离不开的东西）”可知：18世界末肥皂变成人们最喜欢的东西。答案为favorite。
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