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Engleski A - 2015./16. ljeto - reading 5.

Task 5
Questions 33-40
Read and complete the text below.
Fill each space (33-40) with one word. Write your answer only here in this exam booklet.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week?
Digging (0) into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations
if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know
certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know very little.
The common explanation is that the seven-day week was established in the late Roman Empire and furthered by the Christian church
historical reasons. The first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested
the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the Sabbath or Saturday. Another theory correlates the 7-day week to the seven "astrological planets" well
to the ancient inhabitants of Earth. Those were the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. There are some practical geometrical theories as
.
There is no record of the 7 -day week cycle ever
been broken despite calendar changes and reforms throughout the ages. It is very likely that the week cycles have run uninterrupted at
since the days of Moses (around 1400 B.C.), possibly even longer.
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