七、根据短文内容及首字母提示,写出所缺单词(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
Yancheng, literally(字面意思) "salt city", is named after many sea salt fields around the city. So let's learn something about salt.
Can we live without salt? No, salt is very 71. i
mportant
to us. We need salt in our food. Animals need it, too. Do you know how to get salt? Most of the salt in our country 72. c
omes
from the sea. To let sea water in, people should 73. d
ig
very big pools. When the sun dries up the water, people can get salt from the ground. The salt is 74. w
hite
, clean and beautiful.
There are a lot of salt wells(井) in Sichuan. A salt well is much 75. l
ike
a water well. People bring the well water up to the ground and then dry it in big jars(罐子) over the 76. f
ire
. In this way, they get salt.
People in some areas can 77. a
lso
get salt from salt mines(矿). A salt mine may be found under the ground. Several years ago, people in Jiangxi found a big salt mine and soon 78. o
pened
it. From then on, people there didn't need salt from other 79. p
laces
any more.
In the north-west of our country, there are many salt lakes. Some of these lakes are very big. People can use the salt in a big lake for even 80. h
undreds
of years. It is more than enough!