【正文】 A. Outdoor Adventures. B. Business News. C. Modern Fashion. D. Technology Today. C There is an old story about a king and his daughter. The king asked his daughter how much she loved him. She said that she loved him as much as she loved salt. Her answer made the king sad. Salt is a simple thing, and it is very mon. So the king thought his daughter didn39。s most important job was preserving(保存 )food. Like other living things, most bacteria(細菌 )that cause food to spoil need water to survive. Salt absorbs large amounts of water, so most bacteria cannot live in a salty environment. As a result, salt has the ability to preserve almost anything. For much of human history, this ability has made salt treasured. Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depended on salt. Even today, we pare hardworking, useful people to salt by calling them the salt of the earth. For centuries, salt was also hard to get. The bination(組合 )of usefulness and rarity made it extremely expensive. Since almost everyone needed salt, the salt trade was an important business. Salt could even be used like money. In fact, the word salary(工資 )es from the word salt. And valuable people are still described as being worth their salt. Today, salt is easy to get. It is no longer expensive, but it is still both important and useful. the first paragraph, the writer is trying to make readers . A. bee interested in the old story B. understand the importance of salt C. fall in love with salt D. understand the daughter39。s dream was always to bee a clown(小丑 ).Three years ago, Alan, Kath and Gareth joined the circus(馬戲團 ). People laugh when we tell them,39。 When Alan lost his job, he and Kath decided to see if they could find fulltime circus jobs. They both got jobs with a famous circus and Gareth began training to bee a clown. He calls himself Bippo. They travel with the circus during the summer and return home for the winter. Gareth39。 says Kath. 39。 says Gareth, 39。 And the future? 39。m happy to say it39。I39。s circus.39。 38. We can39。 。 。s second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse. The truth of the matter was, the baby looked very much like a mouse in every way. He was only about two inches high。s whiskers(胡須 )， and the pleasant, shy manner of a mouse. Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, toowearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane(手杖 ).Mr. and Mrs. Little named him Stuart, and Mr. Little made him a tiny bed. Unlike most babies, Stuart could walk as soon as he was born. Mrs. Little saw right that the baby clothes she had provided were unsuitable, and she set to work and made him a fine little blue suit. Every morning, before Stuart dressed. Mrs. Little went into his room and weighed him on a small scale(稱 )which was really used for weighing letters. At birth Stuart could have been sent by first class mail, but his parents preferred to keep him rather than send him away. At the age of a month, he had gained only a third of an ounce(盎司 ), his mother was so worried that she sent for the doctor. The doctor was happy with Stuart and said that it was very unusual for an American family to have a mouse. He took Stuart39。t heard from you since you arrived in Suzhou. I39。 、校名等