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According to the speaker, what were the beliefs of the Greek philosophers based
According to the speaker, what were the beliefs of the Greek philosophers based
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2023-11-22
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问题
According to the speaker, what were the beliefs of the Greek philosophers based upon?
In ancient times, many people believed the earth was a flat disc. Well over 2000 years ago, the ancient Greek philosophers were able to put forward two good arguments proving that it was not. Direct observations of heavenly bodies was the basis of both these arguments. First, the Greeks knew that during eclipses of the moon, the earth was between the sun and the moon, and they saw that during these eclipses, the earth’s shadow on the moon was always round, they realized that this could be true only ff the earth was spherical. If the earth were a flat disc, then its shadow during eclipses would not be a perfect circle, it would be stretched out into a long ellipse. The second argument was based on what the Greeks saw during their travels. They noticed that the Noah Star, or Polaris, appeared lower in the sky when they traveled south, in more northernly regions, the North Star appeared to them to be much higher in the sky. By the way, it was also from this difference in the apparent position of the Noah Star that the Greeks first calculate the approximate distance around the circumference of the earth, a figure recorded in ancient documents says 400, 000 stadia, that’s the plural of the word stadium. Today, it’s not known exactly what length one stadium represents, but let’s say it was about 200 meters. It’s a very good estimate for those writing se long before even the first telescope was invented.
选项
A、How the natural world was described in Greek mythology.
B、What they observed directly.
C、The writings of philosophers from other societies.
D、Measurements made with scientific instruments.
答案
B
解析
语义理解题。讲话者开始讲到2000年以前,人们就地球到底是圆形的平面还是一个立体的圆球进行了争论,双方的观察都是基于肉眼直接观察的结果。因此B项正确。
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