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The Greeks and Romans were aware of the potential of modifications to the body to ______.
A．help develop a sense of fashion
B．break societal norms
C．help develop society
D．mark various distinctions
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Which of the following statements is not true？
A．The Egyptians used to record information by putting writing and pictures together.
B．The Greeks developed the alphabet system from people living in Mediterranean Sea.
C．The Roman alphabet was developed from the Egyptian one.
D．The Romans copied their writing system from the Greeks.
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Public Health in Rome
The Romans built great "aqueducts" to carry fresh water from the mountains to the cities.Many of these aqueducts are still standing today.The Romans also built great pipes under the ground to carry away the sewage(污水).In Rome, these sewage pipes (sewers)are still used today; it is 2,000 years old.The Roman Emperors even set up a government health service.They built the first great public hospitals in Europe, and they paid doctors to look after poor people.When the Roman Empire fell to pieces, these civilized methods of treatment disappeared from most of Europe, for more than a thousand years.People went back to the old ways.They lived in dirty conditions which helped to cause diseases; and they asked God to cure the diseases.They shut up mentally sick people in prisons.Or they burnt them alive because they were supposed to have magic power.And the work of the Greek and Roman doctors was lost.
Over a thousand years ago, the Arabs moved into many of the Mediterranean coun-tries.They took big parts of the old Roman lands.They translated the Greek and Roman medical books into Arabic.Arab, doctors themselves made many new discoveries.When civilization at last came back to Europe, men once again translated the Greek and Roman works on medicine into Latin.Slowly European doctors discovered again the things that the Greeks and Romans had known so long ago.They found out more about the way the body works, the way our blood goes round our bodies, the way our nerves send messages from our brains to our muscles, the way these muscles move our bodies.
第 41 题 The word "aqueduct" probably means__________
A．something which was built long ago.
B．something invented by a Roman Emperor.
C．a big pipe under the ground,
D．something built to supply clean water for the citizens.
The Ancient Road Building
A quick review of ancient history since men began keeping records of their achievements would show that all the great empire (帝国) builders were also road builders. They knew well that good roads were necessary for keeping the extended empire together. The first of the great empire road builders were the Persians (波斯人). Between 500 and 400 B. C. all the parts of the Persian Empire were connected by roads with the capital city. The main, or "royal", road began near what is now Turkey(土耳其), and ended in Susa. The road had well-built inns where travelers could rest and eat, and tax-houses like those on a modern highway.
The people of Greece, unlike the Persians, believed that their city-states could remain independent only if the roads between them were not too good. Besides, the landscape(风景) full of mountains in Greece made road building an extremely difficult job. As a result, the Greeks turned to the sea, and instead of highways, developed sea routes that reached distant lands.
By far the greatest of the ancient road builders were the Romans. The Romans, like the Persians before them, recognized the importance of land routes to keep their empire together. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire covered about 2,000,000 square miles. It extended from Spain in the west to the banks of the Caspian Sea(里海) in the east. And from England in the northwest, the empire stretched south to include the coastal lands of North Africa. By about 120 A.D. the Romans had built an extraordinary network of about 50,000 miles of roads. The roads were originally built for military traffic moving from one part of the empire to another, but during periods of peace these same roads were busy with traders and travelers.
You can still travel over Roman roads in many parts of Europe today. The Roman engineers knew how to build things that would last and last.
The Persians started to build roads about ______.
A．500 years ago
B．2000 years ago
C．1600 years ago
D．2500 years ago
The Ancient Road Building
A quick review of ancient history since men began keeping records of their achievements would show that all the great empire (帝国) builders were also road builders. They knew well that good roads were necessary for keeping the extended empire together.
The first of the great empire road builders were the Persians (波斯人). Between 500 and 400 B. C. all the parts of the Persian Empire were connected by roads with the capital city. The main, or "royal", road began near what is now Turkey(土耳其), and ended in Susa. The road had well-built inns where travelers could rest and eat, and tax-houses like those on a modern highway.
The people of Greece, unlike the Persians, believed that their city-states could remain independent only if the roads between them were not too good. Besides, the landscape (风景) full of mountains in Greece made road building an extremely difficult job. As a result, the Greeks turned to the sea, and instead of highways, developed sea routes that reached distant lands.
By far the greatest of the ancient road builders were the Romans. The Romans, like the Persians before them, recognized the importance of land routes to keep their empire together. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire covered about 2,000,000 square miles. It extended from Spain in the west to the banks of the Caspian Sea(里海) in the east. And from England in the northwest, the empire stretched south to include the coastal lands of North Africa. By about 120 A.D. the Romans had built an extraordinary network of about 50,000 miles of roads. The roads were originally built for military traffic moving from one part of the empire to another, but during periods of peace these same roads were busy with traders and travelers.
You can still travel over Roman roads in many parts of Europe today. The Roman engineers knew how to build things that would last and last.
The Persians started to build roads about ______.
A．500 years ago
B．2000 years ago
C．1600 years ago
D．2500 years ago
About 5,000 years ago, the Egyptians and other people in the Near East began to use pictures as kind of writing. They drew simple pictures or signs to represent things and ideas, and also to represent the sounds of their language. The signs these people used became a kind of alphabet. The Egyptians used to record information and to tell stories by putting picture writing and pictures together. When an important person died, scenes and stories from his life were painted and carved on the walls of the place where he was buried. Some of these pictures are like modern comic strip stories. It has been said that Egypt is the home of the comic strip. But, for the Egyptians, pictures still had magic power. So they did not try to make their way of writing simple. The ordinary people could not understand it.
By the year 1,000 BC, people who lived in the area around the Mediterranean Sea had developed a simpler system of writing. The signs they used were very easy to write, and there were fewer of them than in the Egyptian system. This was because each sign, or letter, represented only one sound in their language. The Greeks developed this system and formed the letters of the Greek alphabet. The Romans copied the idea, and the Roman alphabet is now used all over the world. These days, we can write down a story, or record information, without using pictures. But we still need pictures of all kinds: drawing, photographs, signs and diagrams. We find them everywhere: in books and newspapers, in the street, and on the walls of the places where we live and work. Pictures help us to understand and remember things more easily, and they can make a story much more interesting.
According to the first paragraph, pictures of animals were painted on the walls of caves because ______.
A．the pictures were thought to be helpful
B．the painters wanted to tell stories in pictures
C．the painters wanted to paint their hunted animals
D．both A and B
The Greeks managed to get politics out of the Olympics.
A．Y
B．N
C．NG
1：Reading Comprehension(子母填空): Answer Questions 1～10 by referring to the comments on 3 different planets in the following magazine article. Note: Answer each question by choosing A, B or C and mark it on ANSWER SHEET 1. Some choices may be required more than once. A = Saturn B = Venus C = Mercury Which planet(s)... Saturn For beauty and interest alike, there are few objects in the starry heavens to compare with Saturn. This magnificent planet, with the system of rings that encircles it, provides an unforgettable spectacle when it is viewed through a powerful telescope. The Saturnian system includes not only the planet and its rings, but also 11 or more satellites, or moons. To the ancients Saturn appeared to be the most insignificant of the heavenly bodies that were supposed to circle the Earth (the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn), as distinguished from the fixed stars. The glorious rings that surround the planet were invisible before the invention of the telescope in the first decade of the seventeenth century. Otherwise this magnificent crown might have saved Saturn from the sinister reputation that it once bore. Ancient astrologers maintained that it had a sinister influence upon people. Saturn is far from the center of the solar system. The mean distance of Saturn from the sun is 1,428,000,000 kilometers, or about 9.5 times the distance of the earth from the sun. The density of Saturn is very low, much lower than that of any other planet. In fact it is only about three-quarters that of water. Because of this fact some astronomers hold that Saturn is far from having reached the solid condition. Venus The beautiful white planet whose orbit lies between those of Mercury and of the Earth is called Venus after the Roman goddess of beauty. The planet is similar to our earth in size and mass. Its diameter is about 12,100 kilometers; the earth's is 12,725 kilometers. Its mass is a little more than four-fifths that of the earth. Its density is about nine-tenths that of our planet. Venus revolves around the sun once every 225 days in an orbit that is very nearly circular. As the planet revolves, it rotates about its axis once every 243.1 earth days, from east to west instead of in the west-to-east direction of most other celestial bodies. The planet is tilted only slightly with respect to the plane of its orbit. As it proceeds along its orbit, Venus is sometimes on the far side of the sun from the earth, or at superior conjunction. At other times Venus is between the sun and the earth, at inferior conjunction. At superior conjunction it is quite far from earth. But at inferior conjunction it is only about 41,840,000 kilometers away-closer than any other planet. These variations in distance result in notable differences in the apparent size of the planet as viewed from the earth, at inferior conjunction, the apparent diameter is six times greater than at superior conjunction. Venus has been explored by 15 spacecraft of which five were from the United States and ten were from the soviet Union. Some of these were orbiters, some were landers, and some were both. The planet is completely covered with opaque clouds, which make an almost perfect reflecting layer. Mercury Mercury is the nearest of the planets to the sun. It is the smallest of all and also, at certain intervals, one of the brightest. In spite of that fact, it is generally not easy to see with the naked eye. For one thing, it appears in the heavens only during the hours of twilight and dawn, when even very bright stars do not appear at their best. Besides, it is often obscured by haze near the horizon. The great Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus once lamented the fact that he had not been able to see Mercury at all in his many years of observation of the heavens. Perhaps this was due to the nature of the district where he lived—the low and misty region of eastern Prussia where the Vistula flows into the Baltic. Mercury makes such a small circuit around the Sun that it is always comparatively near that body. It never rises in the morning or sets in the evening much before or after the Sun. Because of its appearance sometimes in the east and sometimes in the west, some ancient peoples including the Egyptians, Hindus, and Greeks, thought of it as two separate heavenly bodies—a morning star and an evening star. The Greeks called the morning star "Apollon" after the god of the sun, and the evening star "Hermes", the name of the swift messenger of the gods, because the planet's apparent motion among the stars was so swift. It is said that the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who lived in the sixth century B. C. , was the first to recognize that the morning star and evening star were one and the same heavenly body. That fact was well known to Roman astronomers. Hermes was worshiped by the Romans under the name of Mercury. Scientists were surprised to discover that Mercury has a very thin atmosphere consisting of helium. It is so thin that the word "atmosphere" gives the wrong impression, but no such gas envelope has been expected at all. Another surprise was that Mercury has a weak magnetic field. Whether this field is produced by the planet itself or produced in some way by the solar wind— the stream of particles flowing out from the Sun—is not yet certain. But at any rate, the interior of Mercury is probably earth like in composition, with an iron core and a less dense outer crust. 1：has been explored by 15 spacecraft？ 1.______
In the early days of ancient Olympic Games ______.
A．all male Greeks were qualified to compete in the Games
B．only male Greek athletes were allowed to participate in the games
C．all Greeks, with the exception of women, were allowed to compete in the Games
D．all Greeks, irrespective of sex, religion or social status, were allowed to take part
Greeks and Romans were aware of the potential of modifications to the body to ______.
A．help develop a sense of fashion
B．break societal norms
C．help develop society
D．mark various distinctions
What did John Hadoulis report about the preparations of the Olympics Games？
A．The Greeks have wasted the first five years after they won the bidding.
B．The Greeks should be proud of what they are doing now.
C．IOC (International Olympic Committee) has always been praising their work.
D．The best thing is to finish all the work by last minute.
