四级英语阅读理解精选练习附答案解析.docVIP

第 PAGE 页码 页码 页 / 总页数 NUMPAGES 总页数 总页数 页 四级英语阅读理解精选练习附答案解析 导读：我根据大家的需要整理了一份关于《四级英语阅读理解精选练习附答案解析》的内容，具体内容：阅读理解是英语四级试卷中分值最重的题型，因此有必要重视加强阅读理解的练习。为了帮助大家提高阅读理解的解题技巧，下面是我为大家带来，希望对大家英语四级备考有所帮助!四级英语阅读理... 阅读理解是英语四级试卷中分值最重的题型，因此有必要重视加强阅读理解的练习。为了帮助大家提高阅读理解的解题技巧，下面是我为大家带来，希望对大家英语四级备考有所帮助! 四级英语阅读理解精选练习： No one knows when the first calendar was developed. But it seems possible that it was based on lunar months. When people started farming, the sages of the tribes became very important, they studied the sky and gathered enough information to be able to predict when the seasons would change, and were able to announce when it was time to plant crops. The divisions of time we use today were developed in ancient Babylonia 4,000 years ago.Babylonian astronomers believed the sun moved around the Earth every 365 days.They divided the trip into 12 equal parts, each with 30 days. Then they divided each day into 24 equal parts, or hours, and divided each hour into 60 minutes, each minute into 60 seconds. Humans have used many devices to measure time; the sundial (日晷) was one of the earliest and simplest. However, the sundial worked well only when the weather was fine, so other ways of measuring the passing of time were invented. One device was the hourglass(沙漏). By the eighteenth century, people had developed mechanical clocks and watches. So we have devices to mark the passing of time, but what time is it now? Clocks in different parts of the world do not show the same time at the same time, because time on Earth is set by the suns positions in the sky above us. As international communications and travel grew, it became clear that a way to establish a common time for all parts of the world was needed. In 1884, an international conference divided the world into 24 time zones, each zone represents one hour. The astronomical observatory in Greenwich, England, was chosen as the starting point for the time zones. Twelve zones are west of Greenwich. Twelve are east. T