Many people don’t think that the number 13 is a lucky number. Many hotels do not have a 13th floor. The floors go from 12 to 14, and there is no number13. Some people will never sit at a table with 12 other people. They will tell someone to go or ask another person to sit with them.
No one really knows why people do not like the number 13. Perhaps one reason is that when people began to count, they used ten fingers and two hands. This made 12. They could not count more.
Some Christians (基督徒) say that 13 is not lucky because there were 13 people at a meal the day before Jesus (耶穌) was killed (被殺). In a story about the old Greek (希臘的) gods, 12 gods were asked to a meal but one more came. This made 13. It is why the god Balder, who was at the meal, was killed.
小題1:Some people will never sit at a table with twelve other people, or _________________.
A． they will never come for dinner together
B．they will ask one of them to leave
C．a(chǎn)ll of them will leave
D．they will wait for two other people to come
小題2:The story is about _____________________.
A．the death of Jesus
B．the person who killed Balder
C．why 13 is not a lucky number
D．the way people count with their fingers

小題1:B
小題2:C  

小題1:細節(jié)理解題，根據(jù)文中語句“Some people will never sit at a table with 12 other people.”理解可知。
小題2:理解歸納題，根據(jù)文中語句理解可知。
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