_______ Introduction to Greek Mythology(希腊神话)
Some things about daily life can be counted on. The sun _______, crosses the sky, sets. Stars come out at night. Rivers flow toward the sea. The air and land and waters are filled _______ life. These life-forms feed one another: Plants are _______ by animals, and animals eat other animals. But there are also interruptions: volcanoes(火山爆发), _______, tsunamis(海啸), storms(风暴). Life on Earth is complex(复杂).
From our earliest records of human activity, we can know that people recognized this complexity and wanted to explain it. _______, humans are the only creatures who have all kinds of questions about the nature of existence. The questions that people from different societies have are often quite _______, but the answers they give and the relative importance they assign to these answers can be very different.
In this book we find answers _______by the ancient Greeks to many of the questions humans want to understand. But we also find gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters who love and hate. In reading the myths, we begin to understand that the ancient Greeks must have wanted more than just the big answers from their gods. What they have _______ wanted is for their gods to help them understand _______.
31. 32. A.rises | B.is risen | C.rose | D.is rising |
33. 34. A.eat | B.ate | C.eating | D.eaten |
35. A.weather | B.earthquakes | C.rain | D.sunshine |
36. A.As far as we know | B.All of a sudden | C.By accident | D.At least |
37. A.same | B.different | C.similar | D.difficult |
38. A.are offered | B.to offer | C.offering | D.offered |
39. A.exactly | B.properly | C.nearly | D.widely |
40. A.it | B.themselves | C.them | D.ones |