The Mayan calendar far more accurate than the European calendars of the time most probably

because ______.

A．the Mayan numbers enabled the Mayan priests to study planets

B．the European countries had no interest in founding a calendar

C．the European calendars of the time probably were made by a guess work

D．the year was divided into 18 months of 20 days each with five days left over

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第1题

This article is mainly about ______.A．the Mayan calendar and the ancient Mayan buildingsB．

This article is mainly about ______.

A．the Mayan calendar and the ancient Mayan buildings

B．the Mayan Indians and the Mayan calendar

C．the intelligent Maya and their many achievements

D．the ancient Mayan cities and temples

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第2题

The Mayan Indians lived in Mexico for thousands of years before the Spanish arrived in the

1500s. The Maya were an intelligent, culturally rich people whose achievements were many. The Mayan people knew a lot about nature and the world around them. This knowledge helped them to live a better life than most people of that time, because they could use it to make their lives more comfortable and rewarding. Knowledge about tools and farming, for instance, made their work easier and more productive.

In ancient Mexico there were many clearings in the forest. In each clearing was a village with fields of different crops around it. The Maya cut down trees with stone axes and planted seeds by digging holes in the ground with pointed sticks. A farmer was able to grow crops that produced food for several people. But not every Maya had to be a farmer. Some were cloth makers, builders, or priests.

The Maya believed in many gods. The people built large temples to honor their gods. Skillful workers built cities around these temples. It was difficult to construct these cities, because they had no horses to carry the heavy stone needed. Workers had to carry the building materials themselves. Today, many of these ancient Mayan cities and temples are still standing.

Measuring time was important to the Maya, so they developed a system for measuring it accurately. Farmers needed to know when to plant and harvest their crops. Mayan priests made a system to keep track of time. They wrote numbers as dots (...) and bars (- ). A dot was one and a bar was five.

The Mayan priests studied planets. They made a calendar from what they learned. The year was divided into. 18 months of 20 days each with five days left over. The Mayan calendar was far more accurate than the European calendars of the time.

Around the year 800, the Maya left their villages and beautiful cities, never to return. No one knows why. They may have died from an infectious disease. They may have left because the soil could no longer grow crops. Archaeologists are still trying to find the lost secrets of the Maya. They are still one of our greatest mysteries.

This article may be taken from ______.

A．a magazine

B．a literature book

C．an art book

D．a historical book

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第3题

Its only an arguably very willful misinterpretation of the ancient Mayan calendar to conc

lude the world ends on 21 December 2012. The question is why so many people are drawn by these tales 【M1】______ of impending destruction？ Theres more reason to think it will 【M2】______ immediately lead to a planet-wide liquidation sale than if your desk calendar reaches the end of the year before youve bought a new one. Why are we so determined to think our days are numbered, and so willing to bend the facts to fit our delusions？ My whole 【M3】______ unscientific theory is what stems from our understandable difficulty 【M4】______ grasping the walk-on part we all hold amid the sprawling enormity 【M5】______ of deep time. It is not easy to get our head round the Earth having 【M6】______ existed for billions of years, and with our own life in comparison 【M7】______ being an almost insignificant instant in the middle of it all. Thus 【M8】______ fleeting and so far from either end of the story that many of us behave like individual black holes, mentally warping time to write ourselves into the grand finale. Sooner or later, those who are convinced of our imminent doom will inevitably be proved right. The planet cant last forever — astronomers predict the planet only has around another 7.5 billion years when it is engulfed by the Sun and humans will likely have 【M9】______ disappeared much earlier. If we do have only the briefest lines in a seemingly interminable epic, shouldnt we make most of it while we 【M10】______ are on stage？

【M1】

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第4题

The Mayan civilization flourished on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.A．profitedB．gainedC．b

The Mayan civilization flourished on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico.

A．profited

B．gained

C．benefited

D．prospered

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第5题

When was the Mayan Classical Period？