Why is the number 13 unlucky according to the Norse myth?** - 第三段讲述了北欧神话中,邪恶之神Loki是宴会上第13位客人,他导致了快乐之神Balder的死亡。 - 选项A“Because the 13th guest caused the death of Balder.” 符合题意。 **9. Which of the following does the writer agree with?** -...
Norse words entered the English language"及下文"From Danish and Norse, English borrowed 'skin', 'leg' and the pronouns 'them', 'their' and 'they'."可知,拉丁语给了英语像"kitchen" "cup"这样的词。故选 B 。 5. D 由下文"and powerful, and English was spoken mostly by poor people"可知,...
How the Normans Changed the History of Europe Mark Robinson In the year 1066, 7,000 Norman infantry and knights sailed in warships across the English Channel. Their target: England, home to more than a million people. Theirs w...
The first great empire of the Middle Ages was the Frankish Empire of Charlemagne, while the Islamic conquest of Iberia established Al-Andalus. The Viking Age saw a second great migration of Norse peoples. Attempts to retake the Levant from the Muslim states that occupied it made the High ...
But the weather was of daily importance: observing the skies and drawing the correct conclusions from these observations was really important, in fact theirsurvival (Q32)depended on it. It isn’t known when people first started to observe the skies, but at around 650 BC, the Babylonians prod...
The Greek god Astraeus is an important god when looking at how the Greeks conceptualized the world. While lesser known than his wife Eos, the dawn, this father-god of stars and winds is vital as the origin of the most intimate natural forces one can experience. While little is known of ...
正确答案：A 要插入的句子说要resolve disagreement。而这段的第一句就说很多debate，debate就是与disagreement对应的。所以插到第一个空里正合适。
,The history of the English language began over 1500 years ago in the north of Europe. Around the fif 2、th century A.D., tribes of people known as the Angels, Saxons, and Jutes traveled west from Germany and Denmark across the North Sea. They settled in Britain, and by the late ...
Many people ask if Ivar the Boneless was real. Ivar the Boneless was one of the three sons of Ragnar Lodbrok, one of the Viking rulers of Scandinavia. Depending on the historical source or the Norse saga, Ivar Ragnarsson acquired the nickname Boneless for one of several reasons. In one ...
Moving water was one of the earliest energy sources to be harnessed to reduce the workload of people and animals. No one knows exactly when the waterwheel was invented, but irrigation systems existed at least 5,000 years ago, and it seems probable that the earliest waterpower device was the...