People have always looked to the sky and wondered about what they saw.The ancient Greeks connected the stars they saw in the sky to form different pictures and made up stories about these pictures using their imagination.Some of these pictures,called constellations (星座),were based on stories about the superhuman Greek gods.One of them goes like this.
The king of the gods,Zeus,had a wife named
Hera.Queen Hera became jealous of a pretty woman named Callisto.One day Queen Hera decided to get rid of Callisto,so she changed Callisto into a bear.Callisto was discomposed.She went home for help.On the way,she ran into her son.He did not recognize her as a bear.He aimed his arrow (箭) at her.Just before the arrow flew,Zeus swept down from the sky and turned Callisto’s son into a bear too.Then Zeus took both bears by the tail and threw them up into the sky.That’s how the Little Bear and Big Bear constellations came into being.
Imaginary stories about constellations may not seem useful to us now.But ancient people had few tools available to them.As technology developed,so did our understanding of our solar system.
【解题导语】 古希腊人通过编故事解读看到的星星,其中大、小熊星座的故事就来源于古希腊神话。
36.How did the ancient Greeks understand the stars?
A.By making up some stories about stars.
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