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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
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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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.
In this context, the word "week" means________.
选项
A、any market day
B、the Sabbath Day
C、the days between those for religious purposes
D、the day for trade and religious festivals
答案
C
解析
本题为细节题,“week”就是定位词,根据前两个题目定位处的位置,可知本题应该在第三段或以下为定位处“in this way, the week came into existence. It was the space between market days”意思是“这样星期这个词就出现了。它指的是在两个相邻集市日之间的时间空间;与各选项匹配,A任何集市日;B周六;C那些相邻宗教日之间一段时间;D用于贸易和宗教日的一天。在原文中提到每隔七天或五天就是下一个集市日,(集市日就是在这一天可以做交易或宗教活动),因此在两个集市日之问有好几天,应该是days,C选项中是days,而D选项内是day,说明只有C与原文相符;因此本题选C。
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