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根据以下材料回答第 1~5 题:Passage Five
Many superstitious people are afraid of black cats.They believe that black cats have astrange power.If a black cat CrOSSeS their path,they think they will have bad luck.
Black cats haven’t always had such a bad reputation.Long ago,the Egyptians
thought that black cats were holy animals,They even worshipped them.Pasht was an
Egyptian goddess who had a woman’s body and a eat’s head.Because the Egypttans had somuch respect for black cats,they often buried the sacred creatures with great ceremony.Mummies of cats have often been found in ancient cemetery ruiDs.To keep the cats cornpany after they died,mice were sometimes buried beside them.
Feelings about black cats have always been strong.People have thought they were either very good or very bad.The people of Europe,in the Middle Ages,believed black catswere the evil friends of witches and Devil.Witches were said to have the power to ehane themselves into black cats.People believed that you could not tell whether a black cat wasj ust a cat,or whether it was a witch disguising herself as she plotted some evil scheme.The brain of a black cat was thought to be a main ingredient in witch’S brew.
Unlike their ancestors of the Middle Ages,Englishmen today consider black cats to begood luck charms.Fishermen’S wives often keep a black cat around SO that their husbandswill be protected when they are out at sea.
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