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I had always known that the Chinese New Year was different from our own but otherwise assumed that the way we Europeans divided
I had always known that the Chinese New Year was different from our own but otherwise assumed that the way we Europeans divided
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2017-12-04
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I had always known that the Chinese New Year was different from our own but otherwise assumed that the way we Europeans divided up the year was something in common. Quite recently, though, I found out that there used to be some pretty dramatic differences. During the Middle Ages, the official start of the year varied enormously within Europe. In Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and Germany it began on Christmas Day, whereas it started on the 1st March in Venice and the 21st in England. In Rome, it was at one time the 25th January but then changed to the 25th March. In Russia the new year coincided with the spring equinox (春分).
If this isn’t complicated enough the French used to start their official year from Easter day. Easter, as I am sure you all know, is a moveable feast whose complicated calculation is quite a mystery to me. However, this French style of working out the beginning of the year led to some years being as short as three hundred days while others could stretch to four hundred with two spring times with one at each end!
With all these different dating systems in operation you can imagine the enormous potential for confusion. This can create headaches for students engaged in studying the period from original documents as they can actually find somebody’s death being recorded months before they are married and battles still being fought weeks after a peace agreement had been signed! It would all depend on where the events had been recorded. As an actual example the student could easily get muddled (糊涂的) over the date of the famous trial of the Knights Templar in Paris. According to records this long and complex trial ended in 1313 as the New Year didn’t officially start until the 7th April. Fortunately for all of us these differences were eventually solved. In December 1564 the French decided to start the New Year from the 1st January. The Russians adopted this new style of dating in 1725 and the English a further twenty-seven years later.
The system for the new year starting on January 1st______.
选项
A、was immediately adopted by the English
B、was adopted by the Russians a century, before the French
C、was accepted by the French
D、was adopted by the English in 1750
答案
C
解析
细节题。定位到最后一段,“In December 1564 the French decided to start the new year from the 1st January.The Russians adopted this new style of dating in 1725 and the English a further twenty-seven years later.”英国并没有立即接受新的划分方法,所以A项说法错误;法国比俄罗斯更早接受新的划分方法,所以B项说法错误,C项说法正确;英国在1752年接受了新的划分方法,所以D项说法错误。故选C。
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