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
外语
Which day is originally the first day of a week?
Which day is originally the first day of a week?
admin
2010-04-24
49
问题
Which day is originally the first day of a week?
A recent report has shown that here in the United States, we’ve experienced an evolution concerning our attitudes towards the workweek and the weekends. Although some calendars still mark the beginning of a week as Sunday, more and more of us are coming to regard Monday as the first day of the week with Saturday and Sunday comprising the two-day period thought as the weekend. In fact the word "weekend" didn’t even exist in English until about the middle of the 19th century. In England at that time, Saturday afternoons had just been added to Sundays and holidays as a time for workers to have off from their jobs. This innovation became common in the United States in the 1920s, but as the workweek were shortened during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the weekend expanded to two full days — Saturday and Sunday. Some people thought that this trend would continue due to increasing automation and the workweek might decrease to four days or even fewer. But so far this hasn’t happened. The workweek seems to have stabilized as forty hours made up of five eight-hour days.
选项
A、1800s
B、1850s
C、1920s
D、1930s
答案
B
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/gR2K777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
Somepessimisticexpertsfeelthattheautomobileisboundtofallintodisuse.Theyseeadayinthenot-too-distantfuturewhe
Fromaworldofsilence,deafpercussionistEvelynGlenniebroughtsomeoftheworld’smostbeautifulmusictothechurchofSt
Whetherornotanimalsfeelisnotaltogetheraneasyquestiontoanswer.Ahumanbeinghasdirectawarenessonlyofthepainsw
Onesummernight,onmywayhomefromworkIdecidedtoseeamovie.Iknewthetheatrewouldbeair-conditionedandIcouldn’t
YouknowDasherandDancer,PrancerandVixen,buthowaboutanopensubwaycarthatpullsSantaClausandhissleighthroughgr
Americansareproudoftheirvarietyandindividuality,yettheyloveandrespectfewthingsmorethanauniform,whetheritis
InAmerica,olderpeoplerarelylivewiththeiradultchildren.Butinmanyothercultureschildrenareexpectedtocare【C1】____
Whenanumberofpeople______togetherinaconversationalknot,eachindividualexpresseshispositioninthegroupwherehes
Owlsareairborneinvaders-powerfulinflight,intimidatinginreposeandperchinginnumbersfarbeyondanythinganyoneremembe
Salt,shellsormetalsarestillusedasmoneyinout-of-the-waypartsoftheworldtoday.Saltmayseemratherastrange【B1】t
随机试题
男,50岁,肝炎病史20年,肝区持续性疼痛3个月,伴乏力,消瘦、食欲减退,恶心,低热,黄疸。查体:肋下腋前线可触及肿大之肝脏,质硬。对诊断有确诊意义的是
男性,63岁,间断肉眼血尿3个月余,血尿时尿中偶有血块,期间曾有两次在肾区绞痛史。静脉肾盂造影显示肾上盏拉长并向内侧移位。B超提示左肾上极5cm低回声实性占位。对该患者最适宜的治疗方式为
患者,男性,37岁。中上腹饥饿性隐痛反复发作7年,伴反酸、嗳气,进食和服用抑酸剂可缓解。如进行腹部检查,最具诊断价值的体征是()
一般能力指完成各种活动都需要的共同能力,就是智力,不包括()
支气管哮喘的基本病理生理特征是
散发有害气体的实验室及其相邻的办公室,其通风系统的设计,正确的是()。
高压送电网和高压走廊的布局,属于下列哪个阶段城市电力工程规划的主要任务()
按施工分块仓面强度计算法对混凝土生产系统规模进行核算时,与下列()因素有关。
受托加工来料不必在账簿中登记。()
“八股取士”的考试形式,在哪个朝代确定?()
最新回复
(
0
)