TPO17 聽力 Ancient Egyptian Calendar - 英檢

第五題
What are two points the professor makes about the administrative calendar?
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A. It included more religious festivals than did the other calendar.
B. It was used for scheduling tax payments.
C. It had the same number of days every year.
D. It used the Moon to determine the beginning of the year.


答案是B跟C


關鍵應該是在最後一段:
But was it any way to run a government? They didn’t think so. For
administrative purposes, it was very inconvenient to have years of different
lengths. So another calendar was introduced, an administrative one. Probably
soon after 3,000BC, they declared a 365-day year, with 12 months per year,
with exactly 30 days each month, with an extra 5 days at the end of each
year. This administrative calendar existed alongside the earlier agricultural
and religious calendar that depended on the heliacal rising of Sirius. This
administrative calendar was much easier to use for things like scheduling
taxes and other things that had to be paid on time. Over time, the calendar
got out of step with seasons and the flooding of the Nile, but for
bureaucratic purposes, they didn’t mind.



我根據這句:
For administrative purposes, it was very inconvenient to have years of different
lengths.
判斷埃及政府的曆法天數不同於另一種

答案C感覺有點怪怪

希望有人可以幫我解惑

謝謝!

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