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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

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问题     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.
Which of the following is true for those earlier times?
选项 A、It became necessary for each day to have a separate name when men began to build cities.
B、There were so many days in the month that it was impossible for each day to have its own name.
C、At that time the day that got a name was called a market day.
D、The Babylonians decided people must work on a market day.
答案B
解析 本题是细节题，定位词是“those earlier times”，定位在第二段后，与各选项匹配，A当人们开始缔造城市时，就有必要让每一天拥有一个单独的名字。在原文定位处找到定位词 “build cities”，原文解释“人们觉得有必要有一个交易日，就是集市日”，所以A与原文不符：B一个月中有这么多天，以至于不可能每一天有自己的名字。在原文定位处找到定位词“So many days in the month”, 原文中“there were too many days in the month for each of them to have a separate name”，too…to do sth“太…而不能…”，意思是：“一个月中有太多天了，对于他们中的每一个不可能有一个单独的名字”；所以B选项与原文定位处意思相符；D中含有must，犯了过于绝对化的错误；C在那时，有名字的那天被称之为集市日；在原文中没有提到这一点，只是说明集市日通常每隔七天或偶尔五天，有一天作为交易日或宗教日；因此本题选B。
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