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根据短文内容，从下框A~F选项中选出能概括每段主题的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。选项中有一项为多余项。

A．How do we get the names for the days? B．The origin of division of the times. C．How did men invent the week? D．The Jews names the seven days. E．How did the Egyptians and the Romans name the days? F．Reason for no names of the days.

1._____________
Do you know how the days of the week get their names? There was a time in the early history of man when the days had no names! The reason was quite simple：men had not invented the week.
2. _____________
In those days, the only division of times was the month, and there were too many days in the month for each of them to have a separate name. But when men began to build cities, they wanted to have a special day on which to trade, a market day. Sometimes these market days were fixed at every tenth day, sometimes every seventh or every fifth day. The Babylonians decided that it should be every seventh day. On this day they didn"t work, but met for trade and religious festivals.
3. _____________
The Jews followed their example, but kept every seventh day for religious purposes. In this way the week came into existence. It was the space between market days. The Jews gave each of the seven days a name, but it was really a number after the Sabbath day(which was Saturday). For example, Wednesday was called the fourth day (four days after Saturday)．
4. _____________
When the Egyptians adopted the seven­day week, they named the days after five planets, the sun, and the moon. The Romans used the Egyptian names of their days of the week: the day of the sun, of the moon, of the planet Mars(火星), of Mercury(水星), of Jupiter(木星), of Venus(金星), and of Saturn(土星)．
5. _____________
We get our names for the days not from the Romans but from the Anglo­Saxons, who called most of the days after their own gods, which were roughly the same as the gods of the Romans. The day of the sun became Sunnandaeg, or Sunday. The day of the moon was called Monandaeg, or Monday. The day of the Mars became the day of Tiw, who was their god of war. This became Tiwesday, or Tuesday. Instead of Mercury"s name, that of the god Woden was given to Wednesday. The Roman day of Jupiter, the thunderer, became the day of the thunder god Thor, and this became Thursday. The next day was named for Frigg, the wife of their god Odin, and so we have Friday. The day of Saturn became Saeterndaeg, a translation from the Roman, the Saturday.

答案

小题1:F
小题2:B
小题3:D
小题4:E
小题5:A

解析

试题分析：本文叙述了人们的星期的命名的来历，最初时没有周，只有月，由于生活中的需要慢慢地产生了周这个想法，然后文中介绍了给星期命名的不同的名字的来历，最后确定用盎格鲁-撒克逊人­的命名方式。
小题1:根据The reason was quite simple：men had not invented the week.星期没有名字的原因，故选F。
小题2:根据In those days, the only division of times was the month，故选B。
小题3:根据The Jews gave each of the seven days a name,犹太人给星期命了名字，故选D。
小题4:根据the Egyptians adopted the seven­day week, they named the days after five planets, the sun, and the moon. The Romans used the Egyptian names of their days of the week:埃及人和罗马人是如何给星期命名的?故选E。
小题5:根据现在的星期的来历，故选A。
点评：总结段落大意题确实存在着一些难度。通过很多段落的分析，我们发现做HEADING 题一个总的做题原则：精读首句，一一对应原则，即首先划好题目的关键词，再从每段第一句进行阅读，寻找题目关键词和段落的一一对应原则。如果第一句能与题目对应就对应了，如果第一句不能与题目对应，则还须往后阅读直到找到对应为止。但使用这个原则的同时还必须确保第一句是中心句。怎样断定第一句为中心句，我们可以对段落结构进行分析，来寻求中心句。