怎么成为丝芙兰会员:初初级课文精精听 2010-05-14
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For thousands of years people used different ways to measure things. (1)__________________. When the king died, they used the new king's foot,and so on. This wasn't a very good way to measure things, because it wasn't always clear how big or small a thing really was. People all over the world used the sun and the moon to measure time. (2)__________________. In 1584,a scientist called Simon Steve nius started to think about a set of measures which used the number ten, but no one was interested in his ideas. About two hundred years later, a group of scientists in France decided to use his ideas. They thought of ways to measure everything using ten. Among their ideas were some that weren't popular. One was a new clock which had ten hours a day. The other was a new calendar which had ten days a week. (3)_____________________. Then they decided to call a hundredth of a metre a centimetre and a thousand metres a kilometre.