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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.
Our present names for the days of the week are________.
选项
A、quite different from the old times
B、mostly named after the gods of the Anglo-Saxons
C、more or less the same as those the Egyptians are using
D、used to count the number of days in a week
答案
B
解析
本题为细节题,present names就是定位词,在原文定位在“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. ”意思是:“尽管我们不是从the Romans而是从the Anglo-Saxons获得了关于每天的名称,但是the Anglo-Saxons的人们是以他们诸神的名词命名,这大体上与罗马的诸神相同。”阅读技巧中提到转折词后是重点,要么就是but/however等后,要么在含有although/though/while“虽然,尽管”的句子中,主句就是“但是”这个转折词后的内容,再与各选项匹配,可以看出B“大多数以the Anglo-Saxons的诸神来命名”,与定位处转折词后内容相符。因此本题选B。
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