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四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】     Every day we lace our talk with measurement words. We ask, “How much?” “How many?” and “How far?” At the storewe buy meat by the pound, clothing by the size, and cloth by the yard. All athletic events are played on measured fields orsurfaces. Rules are also filled with words of measurement. For example, in football we know that a first down means a gain ofat least 10 yards. Words of distance, weight, and size help us understand and visualize what is seen or said.     In ancient times, people used parts of the body as units of measurement. The Romans used uncia to name the distanceequal to the width of a thumb. The English picked up this word and renamed it an inch. They did not, however, accept thethumb as a unit of measure. They decided instead that an inch should be “three barley corns, round and dry, placed end-to-endlengthwise.”     After this inch was accepted and used, the English then joined 12 inches and called it a foot. As it happened, 12 incheswas roughly the length of a man’s foot, so the foot-unit was widely used. To measure a room, all you had to do was put onefoot in front of the other and count.     The inch and the foot worked so well that the English introduced a larger unit. They put together three lengths of a man’sfoot and called it a yard. Again, man had another useful unit---in this case, one he could use to pace off a large field quickly.     Then the English made a unit for the women, one especially for measuring cloth. They called this unit a yard too. Thedistance was from a man’s nose to the tip of his middle finger.    Of course, there is a flaw in all this. Not all men are the same size. But no one seems to care.
76. What is the main idea of the passage?
(A) Roman measurement.
(B) The development of common units of measurement.
(C) What an inch and a foot are equal to.
(D) The necessity of measurement.

參考答案

答案：B
難度：簡單0.812652
統計：A(28),B(668),C(53),D(73),E(0)

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