首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to an ancient belief? In part it must be because astrolo
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to an ancient belief? In part it must be because astrolo
admin
2021-02-21
77
问题
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to an ancient belief? In part it must be because astrology—claims to tell us something about ourselves, and all of us are interested in ourselves. I think it is because astrology is presented as if it were a science by its modern practitioner, and many people are misled by this.
In fact, astrology was never a science. It was not a hypothesis or theory developed to describe natural phenomena, and until fairly recent times, there was not attempt to test or verify its predictions. Astrology began approximately three thousand years ago in Babylonia; it was applied to monarchs and kingdoms, but not to individuals. It spread in the 6th century BC as far as India, where it flourishes today. The Egyptians, meanwhile, developed their own kind of astrology. But the astrology now practiced in Europe and America is that developed by the Greeks, who synthesized the ideas of the Babylonians and Egyptians and enriched them with concepts from their own fertile imaginations. The Greeks believed that the earth was composed of four elements, and the heavens of a perfect crystalline material. The planets themselves were variously thought to be gods, residences of gods, or at least manifestations of gods. The gods were immortal, but otherwise had the same attributes of anger, happiness, jealousy, rage and pleasure as we do. Now if what the gods’ thought was capricious, at least the planets were predictable in their movements. Because our own lot in life is so unpredictable, it must be purely at the mercy of gods. But if the gods are the planets, or somehow associated with them, then we have only to learn the rules of the motions of the planets to understand the whims of the gods and how they shape our own lives. So the belief developed that each of our lives is preordained by the precise configuration of the planets in the sky at the time of our birth.
Astrology could not, of course, have seemed as incredible to the ancients as it does to us. The role of the sun influencing our daily and yearly lives is obvious; it was a natural extension to attribute other powers to the other planets as well. It wasn’t until the time of Newton that we understood that the laws of Nature apply to the celestial worlds as well as to the terrestrial one. During antiquity, however, all great scholars believed in astrology.
While the Greeks developed astrology, they believed that _____.
选项
A、the earth was made up of four elements and the heavens
B、the heavens were made up of a material of pure crystal
C、the ideas of the Babylonians were not imaginative
D、their ideas would soon spread throughout Europe
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。由Greeks可定位至第二段第六、七句。第二段第七句的and引出的应该是一个分句,the heavens和of之间省略了were composed,故B项为正确理解。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/dmY4777K
0
考研英语二
相关试题推荐
StudythefollowingdrawingcarefullyandWriteanessayinwhichyoushould:1)describethedrawing,2)interpretthemeaning
ThewriterwarnsAmericansthat______.By"commonresources"(Paragraph2),theauthormeansthat______.
Theauthorthinksthatpullfactors______.People’sdecisionstomigratemightbeinfluencedbyallthefollowingEXCEPT____
Allthepeople______treatmentprotestedthatthemedicalfeewastoohightobeacceptable.
Thebesttitleforthispassagewouldbe______.Defenseattorneysarevitaltothejudicialsystembecausewithoutthem,itwo
Theauthorbelievesinthepassagethat______.Thepropertitleforthispassageshouldbe______.
YouhavejustcomebackfromtheU.S.asamemberofaSino-Americanculturalexchangeprogram.WritealettertoyourAmerican
Asia’srealboat-rockerisagrowingChina,notJapan,aseniorAmericaneconomistobserved.Thereissomuchnoisesurround
Pricesarcsky-high,withprofitstomatch.Butlookingfurtherahead,theindustryfaceswrenchingchange,saysanexpertofen
随机试题
根据联合国官网,联合国大会将“青年”定义为年龄介于15岁至24岁之间(含15岁和24岁)的那些人。根据中共中央、国务院近日印发的《中长期青年发展规划(2016—2025年)》所指的,“青年”年龄范围是14~35周岁。以下各项说法能够从题干中推出的是:
项目合同的全过程管理具体包括()
根据规定,首次购房人的贷款首付款为(),再次置业者的贷款首付款为()。
建设项目有其明显的特征,下列表述不正确的是()。
2007年以来,中国经济出现较明显的.通货膨胀现象,国内居民消费价格指数居高不下,为此,中国人民银行采取了一系列货币政策措施予以应对。根据以上资料,回答下列问题:中国人民银行可采取的政策措施有()。
接待群众的基本要求是()。
新民主主义社会的主要经济成分是
BytheendoftheMiddleAgesthetechnologicalsystemscalledcitieshadlongsincebecomeacentralfeatureofWesternlife.I
I’mgoingtoBeijingonbusiness,andIwillbeback______twoweeks.
TajMahal(泰姬陵),India【B1】______Faithandvanity,throughoutthecenturies,haveoftenbeenthequalitiesthathaveinspired
最新回复
(
0
)