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The cat has probably been associated with Man since it was first given a place by his fire in return for keeping the cave dwelli
The cat has probably been associated with Man since it was first given a place by his fire in return for keeping the cave dwelli
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The cat has probably been associated with Man since it was first given a place by his fire in return for keeping the cave dwelling free of rats and mice.【R1】______Man’s attitude has ranged through indifference and neglect to the extremes of persecution and worship.
【R2】______Temples were built in their honour. Probably the most revered of animal deities was Bast, the cat-headed goddess.【R3】______Occasionally, Bast was depicted as lion-headed, but the majority of the statues of her show her as cat-headed, often surrounded by sacred cats or kittens.
The Egyptians had great faith in the power of a living cat to protect them from both natural and supernatural evils.【R4】______These decorated their homes and were buried with them to ensure that the soul of the dead person was protected on its perilous journey through the hostile spirit world.
【R5】______At the end of the last century, a cat cemetery was discovered near the site the ancient city of Bubastis. Here literally hundreds of thousands of little cat mummies were found ranged neatly on shelves.【R6】______Thousands were left.
An Alexandrian speculator finally thought of a way of turning them into money. He offered them for sale as manure and in 1890 he had a cargo of 180,000 of them shipped to Liverpool.【R7】______They mad less than £4 a ton, much less than the value of a single specimen today.
The ancient Jews believed that when a religious person who had reached a high degree of sanctity died, his soul entered the body of a cat and remained there until the cat itself died a natural death. 【R8】______
A. They made small ornaments and charms representing cats and the various cat deities.
B. The relationship between the cat and Man has not been constant, however.
C. There was even a city, Bubastis, named after her.
D. Some were stolen, some destroyed, and antique dealers sold many to tourists.
E. Only then could it enter paradise.
F. They were sold by auction and the auctioneer actually used on instead of his hammer!
G Pious Egyptians always mummified their cats and had them buried with almost as much reverence as if they were human beings.
H. To the early Egyptians, the cat was a goddess.
【R7】
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答案
F
解析
空格前说一个亚历山大的投机商想出来一个赚钱的方法:把这些木乃伊当成肥料卖出去。空格后面说每吨木乃伊卖不到4英镑。所以空格处应该说这些木乃伊是怎么被卖的。选项F:“它们是被拍卖的,拍卖商还竟然用一个木乃伊当成锤子来用。”符合题意。
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