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There was a time in the early history of man when the days had no names! The reason was quite simple: Men had not invented the w
There was a time in the early history of man when the days had no names! The reason was quite simple: Men had not invented the w
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There was a time in the early history of man when the days had no names! The reason was quite simple: Men had not invented the week.
In those days, the only division of times was the month, and there were too many days in the month for each of them to have a separate name.
But when men began to build cities, they wanted to have a special day on which to trade, a market day
. Sometimes these market days were fixed at every tenth day, sometimes every seventh or every fifth day. The Babylonians decided that it should be every seventh day. On this day they didn’t work, but met for trade and religious festivals.
The Jews followed their example, but kept every seventh day for religious purposes. In this way, the week came into existence. It was the space between market days. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath day (which was Saturday). For example, Wednesday was called the fourth day (four days after Saturday).
When the Egyptians adopted the seven-day week, they named the days after five planets, the sun and the moon.
The Romans used the Egyptian names for their days of the week: the day of the sun, of the moon, of the planet Mars, of Mercury, of Jupiter, of Venus, and of Saturn.
While we get our names for the days not from the Romans but from the Anglo-Saxons, who called most of the days after their own gods, which were roughly the same as the gods of the Romans. A day, by the way, used to be counted as the space between sunrise and sunset. The Romans counted it as from midnight, and most modern nations use this method.
In the early times there were no names for the days, because men________.
选项
A、had not yet created the idea of grouping seven days in a week.
B、did not know how to spell "week".
C、considered unnecessary to have the names.
D、did not believe it was the time to invent the week.
答案
A
解析
本题是细节题,其定位词是there were no names for the days,而本题问题是because,因此答案在原文的because/the reason is后,so/as a result“因此”前;在原文第一段的第一句定位,定位处“The reason was quite simple:Men had not invented the week. ”本句含义是原因很简单:人们还没有发明出“星期”这一说法。冒号后就是答案所在。把原文和选项做一个匹配,A人们还没有产生一个星期内七天组合的想法;B人们还不知道如何拼写星期这个词;C人们认为没有必要有这些名字;D人们觉得还不是发明星期的时候。本题可以轻松排除B/C;D里虽然存在原词invent,在阅读中有一个原则“看见原词莫着急,同义替换是重点”;因此原文没有说“不是发明星期的时候”,而是说“还没有构思出这样一种概念”。原文中invent与A选项内的create就是同义替换词;因此本题选A。
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