首页
登录
职称英语
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to a
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to a
游客
2023-08-16
18
管理
问题
Why in an age of advanced technology, should so many people still cling to an ancient belief? In part it must be because astrology—claims to tell us something about ourselves, and all of us are interested in ourselves. I think it is because astrology is presented as if it were a science by its modern practitioner, and many people are misled by this.
In fact, astrology was never a science. It was not a hypothesis or theory developed to describe natural phenomena, and until fairly recent times, there was not attempt to test or verify its predictions. Astrology began approximately three thousand years ago in Babylonia; it was applied to monarchs and kingdoms, but not to individuals. It spread in the 6th century BC as far as India, where it flourishes today. The Egyptians, meanwhile, developed their own kind of astrology. But the astrology now practiced in Europe and America is that developed by the Greeks, who synthesized the ideas of the Babylonians and Egyptians and enriched them with concepts from their own fertile imaginations. The Greeks believed that the earth was composed of four elements, and the heavens of a perfect crystalline material. The planets themselves were variously thought to be gods, residences of gods, or at least manifestations of gods. The gods were immortal, but otherwise had the same attributes of anger, happiness, jealousy, rage and pleasure as we do. Now if what the gods’ thought was capricious(变化无常的), at least the planets were predictable in their movements. Because our own lot in life is so unpredictable, it must be purely at the mercy of gods. But if the gods are the planets, or somehow associated with them, then we have only to learn the rules of the motions of the planets to understand the whims of the gods and how they shape our own lives. So the belief developed that each of our lives is preordained by the precise configuration of the planets in the sky at the time of our birth.
Astrology could not, of course, have seemed as incredible to the ancients as it does to us. The role of the sun influencing our daily and yearly lives is obvious; it was a natural extension to attribute other powers to the other planets as well. It wasn’t until the time of Newton that we understood that the laws of Nature apply to the celestial worlds as well as to the terrestrial one. During antiquity, however, all great scholars believed in astrology. [br] While the Greeks developed astrology, they believed that ______.
选项
A、the earth was made up of four elements and the heavens
B、the heavens were made up of a material of pure crystal
C、the ideas of the Babylonians were not imaginative
D、their ideas would soon spread throughout Europe
答案
B
解析
第2段第7句的and引出的应该是一个具有主谓结构的句子,对比分析可看出the heavens和of之间省略了were composed,由此可确定B为对该分句的正确理解。干扰项A是对该省略句的错误理解。
转载请注明原文地址:https://www.tihaiku.com/zcyy/2931801.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext](12)ResearchersattheUniversityofKansassaythatpeople
[originaltext](12)ResearchersattheUniversityofKansassaythatpeople
[originaltext](12)ResearchersattheUniversityofKansassaythatpeople
[originaltext]Whenpeopleencountersomeonewithastrongpersonality,they
[originaltext]Forsomepeople,(12)gettinghookedonsuper-tastyfood—sugary
[originaltext]Forsomepeople,(12)gettinghookedonsuper-tastyfood—sugary
[originaltext]NearlysixmillionpeopleintheUKaretobetoldtheyhave
[originaltext]M:Lastweekwemetthreepeopleontheshowwhohavelosthalfo
[originaltext]M:Lastweekwemetthreepeopleontheshowwhohavelosthalfo
[originaltext]W:Iheardthatsomepeoplewhowerenotenvironmentalscientists
随机试题
泰山雄踞山东省中部,主峰海拔1532.7米,为山东省最高点。()
发热
如何判断一个人是否感染了艾滋病?()A、通过外表判断 B、通过家族史判断 C
房地产经纪机构的下列行为,符合房地产经纪服务标准的有( )。A.根据服务合同的
药品说明书上未收载的不良反应是A.严重不良反应 B.新的不良反应 C.罕见不
在户外变电站和高压室内搬动梯子、管子等长物,应()搬运,并与带电部分保持足够的安
下边哪个图形能由上边的三个图形拼合(只能通过上、下、左、右平移)而成,请把它找出
白矾中不良反应救治方法有A.乳汁洗胃 B.内服镁盐 C.输葡萄糖注射液 D
关于有限理性模型的说法,错误的是()。A.在选择备选方案时,决策者试图使自己
某大学招聘应届博士毕业生小张为该校在编教师,双方约定,聘用合同期限为2016年6
最新回复
(
0
)