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Calendars(日历)

Of course you know the day, month, and year in which you were born. Could it have been the 2nd of Abh, 5710? That doesn’t sound familiar to most of you, does it? But it is a perfectly reasonable calendar date－not on the Gregorian calendar(格里日历) with which you are most familiar, but on one of the many other calendars still in use by the peoples of the world today. Abh is the eleventh month on the Hebrew calendar(希伯来日历), which dated from 3,760 years and 3 months before the beginning of the Christian Era(基督世纪). Besides having an earlier Year One, the Hebrew year begins in the middle of September during the harvest time.

Ways of keeping count of time were developed slowly through the ages by many peoples. Early men could observe that there are three important units(单位) of time: the day, the month, and the year. The day and the year depend on the rotation(自传) of the earth and its movement around the sun. The month depends on the moon’s journey around the earth.

To fit these three units of time into a reliable(可靠) plan was a great task which took men many centuries to finish. As a matter of fact, the task is really not finished yet since our calendar is not yet perfect. Many people are still trying to change it.

1．Who was born on the 2nd of Abh, 5710?

A．Some well-known Hebrew person.

B．The reader of this passage.

C．The writer of this passage.

D．Nobody that we know.

2．In the Hebrew calendar, the year 1988 is Year ____________.

A．5748 B．5710 C．3760 D．1988

3．In the Hebrew calendar, the year begins in ____________.

A．spring B．summer C．autumn D．winter

4．The writer of the passage seems to think that inventing a calendar is __________.

A．a simple task－even early man could do it

B．an interesting task－there are different calendars all over the world.

C．a difficult task－it took people centuries to finish.

D．a useless task－you can never make a perfect calendar

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B．Because watches are featured by the disadvantages of simple function

C．Because watches are too expensive to afford.

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B．watchmakers hardly change the development strategy for watches

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A. Because watches cannot keep good time as cell phones, mini laptops and MP3 players.

B. Because watches are featured by the disadvantages of simple function

C. Because watches are too expensive to afford.

D. Because watches don’t have beautiful appearance as other modern time telling tools.

2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 mean?

A. Watching-making is facing a survival crisis challenge.

B. Watching-making is faced with the developing opportunity.

C. Watching-making becomes the sun rising industry.

D. Watching-making has a specific development target.

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A. people will gradually lose interest in watches as they grow older

B. watchmakers hardly change the development strategy for watches

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