2. 职称英语
  3. It is not easy to pin-point the【C1】______of the Christmas feast, today the m

It is not easy to pin-point the【C1】______of the Christmas feast, today the m

游客2024-10-20  29
问题     It is not easy to pin-point the【C1】______of the Christmas feast, today the most important feast of the Christmas season in most western Christian churches. One can only say【C2】______that the birth of Jesus Christ was being【C3】______in Rome by the year 336 A.D.; afterwards the feast was celebrated in other Christian churches throughout the world.
    【C4】______ it was celebrated on December 25th is another【C5】______. No date for the【C6】______of Jesus can be found in the New Testament, which is concerned more【C7】______the question "Who is Jesus?"【C8】______the date of his birth. Early Christian speculation about his birth date was【C9】______by the symbolism of the changing seasons, then popular in【C10】______thought,【C11】______paid careful【C12】______to the equinoxes and solstices of the sun. Christian scholars speculated that Jesus was【C13】______at the spring equinox (March 25th) and therefore was born on December 25th, the date of the winter solstice.
    In many of the Christian【C14】______, March 25th is still the Feast of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel【C15】______to Mary that she【C16】______the mother of Jesus.
    【C17】______impulse for the feast of Christmas may have came too【C18】______the establishment of the pagan feast of the "Unconquered Sun-God" by the Emperor Aurelian in 274 A.D. to be celebrated on December 25, the day of the winter solstice in Rome and throughout the empire. 【C19】______, Christians could celebrate the feast of the "Sun of righteousness" (Malachi 4,2), Jesus Christ, who called himself "【C20】______of the world." [br] 【C16】
选项 A、is going to be
B、was about to be
C、was to be
D、was doomed to be
答案 C
解析 话法题文章语言正式，在正式文体中使用be to do表示将要发生的动作。D选项bedoomed to do“将要发生(不好的事情)”。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3809560.html
相关试题推荐
随机试题
最新回复(0)