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　　二、勤练高考题型，多练自能生巧

　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　Grasse has always been associated with smell. In the Middle Ages it smelt particularly unpleasant due to its leather tanning (制革) industry. The nobility (贵族) only rarely visited the pretty and charming town to pick up their handmade and tanned leather gloves. Compared with the large area of land in the surrounding countryside, Grasse was certainly a necessary evil with no self­respecting noble owning buildings there.

　　Molinard, a Grasse tanner himself, created the first Grasse perfume(香水). Word spread like wildfire amongst the nobility about the designer perfumed gloves. Molinard offered a pair of his gloves to Catherine de Medici (the Queen), who gave plenty of praise to her Grasse fragrant (芳香的) gloves; she almost single­handedly assured Grasse's reputation as the perfume capital of the world. Thanks to Catherine de Medici, Grasse merchants were encouraged to grow the fragrant plants that tanners needed to supply perfumed leather to the nobility.

　　Grasse has four perfume factories and perfumeries as well as a perfume school and a perfume museum. Fragonard's perfume museum is situated on the first floor of its perfume factory and displays an amazing private collection of perfume bottles, presentation boxes, documents and equipment that tell the history of perfume making from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The perfume museum is open every day, Sundays and public holidays included.

　　Grasse is certainly a fragrant heaven, a_far_cry from its smelly beginning as a leather tanning town. Now famous for a far sweeter smell, Grasse is surrounded by fields of jasmine, roses and so on.

　　Those looking for real estate in France would have to go a long way to find anywhere more charming than Grasse with the city of Nice and its airport just a short drive away and plenty of activities to enjoy in the surrounding countryside. Real estate in Grasse is situated between the Southern Alps and the Cote d'Azur, allowing owners the best of both worlds.

　　1. Why was Grasse considered to be necessary although it was an "evil"？

　　A．It produced leather gloves.

B．It was a beautiful and attractive town.