单选题
There was a time in early history of man when the days bad 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 day 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, and kept every seventh day for religious purposes. In this way the week came into being. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath(安息日) day (which Was 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 (水星), of Venus (木星), and of Saturn (土星). 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.
单选题
In the early days there were no names for the days, because men ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[分析] 由第一段的文意决定,
单选题
In those days ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[分析] 根据第二段的首句可知,古代时间划分的惟一单位是月份,故排除其它三个选项。
单选题
The week came into being when the Jews devoted ______ to God.
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[分析] 第三段告诉我们,犹太人根据巴比伦人的决定,进而确立把每个第七天作为宗教日。
单选题
Who began to call the days in a week after five planets, the sun and the moon?