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
51
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
WhentheAmericaneconomywasrunningfulltilttwoyearsago,fewplaceswereasbreathlesslydelightedasSeattle.Itsportwa
Theauthorthinksthatpullfactors______.People’sdecisionstomigratemightbeinfluencedbyallthefollowingEXCEPT____
Theauthorthinksthatpullfactors______.Peoplemovingwithincountrybordersareoftenmotivatedbythedesireto______.
Ifelt______todeathbecauseIcouldmakenothingofthechairman’sspeech.
Accordingtothepassage,thefactthatyoungpeopleseemtobelosinginterestinscience______.Thesecondparagraphismain
Theauthorbelievesinthepassagethat______.Thepropertitleforthispassageshouldbe______.
ManyAmericansregardthejurysystemasaconcreteexpressionofcrucialdemocraticvalues,includingtheprinciplesthatallc
Asia’srealboat-rockerisagrowingChina,notJapan,aseniorAmericaneconomistobserved.Thereissomuchnoisesurround
随机试题
简述下颌阻生第三磨牙拔除术的步骤。
不同行政法规对同一事项的规定,新的一般规定与旧的特别规定不一致,不能确定如何适用时,由()裁决。
(操作员:苏会计;账套:201账套;操作日期:2015年1月31日)1月31日,计提所得税费用80000元,请填制记账凭证。
会计按其报告对象不同分为()。
根据弗里德曼等人的生命周期理论,个人在成熟期的理财特征是()。
根据《中华人民共和国教育法》的规定,学校自主管理的基本依据是()。
阅读以下文字。完成问题。西方戏剧求逼真,说自动作,完全要逼近真实;而中国戏剧却求与真实隔开一层,达到教人放松、教人解脱的效果。中西方戏剧在世界整个文化体系中,各有各的特点与意义。在五四运动时,一般人提倡西方剧,尤其如易卜生,说他能在每一
实践活动的展开的几个基本环节有()。
IntheMiddleAgesstudents_____
Howmanypeopleintheworldareinvolvedinthewar?
最新回复
(
0
)