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　　Do you know the history of the use of cosmetics（化妝品）? Probably when 1 first painted their faces, many thousand years ago, it was for the purpose of 2 their enemies in war. But there are records of women in Egypt 3 cosmetics more than four thousand years ago. These women not only painted their eyebrows, they also added a thick dark line under 4 , and had different kinds of 5 for different seasons of the 6 .

　　Women in ancient Rome used cosmetics, too. 7 used Egyptian KOHL for darkening the eyelids, powdered chalk for whitening the skin, and a red colouring matter for the cheeks. 8 rich Roman lady spent many hours over her dressing, arranging the hair and putting on make-up, 9 by a crowd of young slaves of many nationalities. The Roman writer Oind 10 a book on cosmetics, which gives a description of what we now call a face-pack, made 11 flour, eggs and other materials. The use of this, he says, will make the face smoother and brighter than a mirror.

　　In 12 , it was the custom, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, for all ladies of fashion to paint 13 faces and to blacken their eyebrows. In the nineteenth century there was a change of taste, however, and until about the end of the century, ladies who made up were 14 accepted in high society. Girls were advised, just before 15 the ballroom, to bite and lick（舔）their lips and slap their cheeks 16 so as to bring some 17 to the face.

　　Today the use of cosmetics is accepted everywhere, and it is 18 to see women and girls making up in public. The 19 industry is one of the largest in some countries, and large sums of money go to the 20 of beauty parlour（美容院）.

(1)A.women	B.man	C.men	D.Egyptians
(2)A.inviting	B.driving 　　 off	C.hunting	D.frightening
(3)A.taking	B.making	C.using	D.selling
(4)A.an	B.neither	C.one	D.each
(5)A.purpose	B.reasons	C.paint	D.clothes
(6)A.year	B.month	C.century	D.week
(7)A.Men	B.They	C.Soldiers	D.Those
(8)A.Some	B.A	C.Another	D.That
(9)A.taken	B.brought	C.helped	D.caught
(10)A.wrote	B.bought	C.sold	D.did
(11)A.into	B.from	C.up 　　 of	D.with
(12)A.France	B.some 　　 countries	C.a 　　 country	D.England
(13)A.her	B.their	C.them	D.they
(14)A.already	B.also	C.not	D.easily
(15)A.cleaning	B.leaving	C.sharing	D.entering
(16)A.hard	B.softly	C.quickly	D.slowly
(17)A.colour	B.cosmetics	C.dirt	D.materials
(18)A.common	B.necessary	C.unusual	D.important
(19)A.cosmetics	B.powder	C.chalk	D.eggs
(20)A.shops	B.owners	C.women	D.girls

Answer 1

答案：C;D;C;D;C;A;B;B;C;A;B;B;B;C;D;A;A;A;A;B
解析：

(1) 由后文可知，這里說的是古代戰(zhàn)場上作戰(zhàn)的戰(zhàn)士。

(2) 古代戰(zhàn)場上，士兵們在臉上涂上顏料是為了恐嚇敵人。

(3) 指埃及婦女們使用化妝品的記載。

(4) 指在每只眼睛下畫一條很濃很黑的線。

(6) 這里是指婦女在一年中不同的季節(jié)，用不同類型的化妝品來打扮自己。

(7) 前句已提到women，所以這里當(dāng)然用they指代。

(8) 因為此句中的lady用的是單數(shù)形式，所以可排除選項A。不定冠詞與單數(shù)名詞使用可表種類。這里泛指所有有錢的羅馬女士。

(9) 古羅馬貴族婦女通常由許多奴隸幫助其化妝。

(10) 根據(jù)常識推理，Oind既然是一個作家，當(dāng)然是寫書。

(11) be made from“由……制成”。那時她們用的化妝品是用面粉、雞蛋和其他原料配制而成的。

(12) 根據(jù)邏輯推理，這里應(yīng)是指某些國家的習(xí)俗。

(13) 前文有all ladies提示。

(14) 本句中有however一詞表示轉(zhuǎn)折，所以可推出下文所說的情況與上文不同。故這里應(yīng)用not。

(17) 女孩子進舞廳前，通過咬、舔嘴唇和使勁拍打臉頰來給臉部帶來顏色。

(18) 當(dāng)今，婦女們化妝是普遍現(xiàn)象。

(19) 化妝品工業(yè)已成為一些國家的最大產(chǎn)業(yè)之一。

(20) 婦女們既然要買化妝品，要美容，當(dāng)然就要花很多的錢，那么得利的自然是美容院的老板們。