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The Babylonian mile was first used to measure ______.
A．star movements
B．circles
C．distances
D．time
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第1题
Many, many centuries ago, large distances were measured in the Babylonian mile. The Babylonian mile equaled about seven of our miles. Because of its length, the time needed to travel the Babylonian mile became a measure of time. One day was said to be twelve Baby-Ionian time-miles.
About one thousand years before Christ, the Babylonians began keeping records of star movements. They needed a way to record how much time passed between the moment they first saw a star and then observed it again. They used the Babylonian time-mile as their measure of time.
In order to have small units of time, the Babylonians divided their time-mile into thirty parts. The Babylonians believed that each trip around the sky was a circle. One complete trip around the sky, they reasoned, took one day.
You already know that one day was the same as twelve Babylonian time-mile. Since each time-mile was divided into thirty parts, the circular trip around the sky was 12×30, or 360 parts long. That is how there came to be 360 4egrees in a circle.
The purpose of this passage is to explain ______.
A．how the Babylonians measured the time of star movements
B．why the circle is divided into 360 degrees
C．the Babylonian mile and the Babylonian time-mile
D．the Babylonians' ideas about the sky
第2题
For what was the Babylonian time-mile divided into thirty parts？
A．To make a day into 360 parts.
B．To make a circle into 360 parts.
C．To measure more exact distances.
D．To measure more exact time.
第3题
We conclude that one Babylonian time-mile equals ______.
A．two hours
B．about seven miles
C．one day
D．twelve degrees
第4题
A.The Liberty of the Christian Man
B.Address to the Nobility of the German Nation
C.The Babylonian Captivity of the Church
D.the Ninety-Five Theses
第5题
Which of the following is TRUE？
A．Naboplashar was the builder of the Hanging Gardens.
B．During the rule of Nebuchadnezzar Ⅱ, Babylonian Kingdom was a weak country.
C．Some Greek historians gave accounts of the Hanging Gardens.
D．The building of the Hanging Gardens was recorded in chronicles.
第6题
The Babylonian kingdom flourished under the rule of the famous King, Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC). It was not until the reign of Naboplashar (625-605 BC) of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty that the Mesopotamian civilization reached its ultimate glory. His son, Nebuchadnezzar Ⅱ (604-562 BC) is credited for building the legendary Hanging Gardens. It is said that the Gardens were built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his wife or concubine who had been "brought up in Media and had a passion for mountain surroundings".
Detailed descriptions of the Gardens come from ancient Greek sources, including the writings of Strabo and Philo of Byzantium. "The Hanging Garden has plants cultivated above ground level, and the roots of the trees are embedded in an upper terrace rather than in the earth. The whole mass is supported on stone columns... Streams of water emerging from elevated sources flow down sloping channels... These waters irrigate the whole garden saturating the most of plants and keeping the whole area moist... This is a work of art of royal luxury and its most striking feature is that the labor of cultivation is suspended above the heads of the spectators".
While the most descriptive accounts of the Gardens come from Greek historians such as Berossus and Diodorus Siculns, Babylonian records stay silent on the matter. Tablets from the time of Nebuchadnezzar do not have a single reference to the Hanging Gardens, although descriptions of his palace, the city of Babylon, and the walls are found. Even the historians who give detailed descriptions of the Hanging Gardens never saw them. Modern historians argue that it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that blended all these elements together to produce one of the World Wonders.
It wasn't until the twentieth century that some of the mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were revealed. Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the location of the Gardens, their irrigation system, and their true appearance. Some recent researchers even suggest that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib, not by Nebuchadnezzar Ⅱ (ca. 100 years earlier). Other findings include the Vaulted Building with thick walls and an irrigation well near the southern palace. A group of archaeologists surveyed the area of the southern palace and reconstructed the Vaulted Building as the Hanging Gardens. However, the Greek historian Strabo had stated that the gardens were situated by the River Euphrates. So others argue that the site is too far from the Euphrates to support the theory since the Vaulted Building is several hundreds of meters away. They reconstructed the site of the palace and located the Gardens in the area stretching from the River to the Palace. On the fiver banks, recently discovered massive walls 25m thick may have been stepped to form. terraces--the ones described in Greek references.
The most spectacular feature of the Hanging Gardens is ______.
A．its shape
B．its plants
C．its decoration
D．its position
第9题
He is capable() running a mile in four minutes.
A to
B of
C on
D at
第10题
甲船以每小时20海里(20 n mile/h)的速度向东行驶，同一时间乙船在甲船正北82海里(82 n mile)处以每小时16海里(16 n mile)速度向南行驶，问经过多少时间后两船距离最近？
