2. 外语
  3. The ordeals (神判法) were appeals the supernatural to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. They were 【21】______ the Jud

The ordeals (神判法) were appeals the supernatural to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. They were 【21】______ the Jud

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问题    The ordeals (神判法) were appeals the supernatural to determine the guilt or innocence of the accused. They were 【21】______ the Judicium Dei, judgment of God, or simply judicium. There is some 【22】______ of trial by ordeal in sixth century Frankish 【23】______ . The ordeals spread very rapidly 【24】______ Christianity spread to the east in Europe and to England and Ireland.
   In the early Middle Ages it was widely used to 【25】______ legal questions in Western Europe. In England it was a 【26】______ form of trial and was 【27】______ until trial by jury become 【28】______ forms of the ordeal varied 【29】______ the nature of the crime.
   The greatest use of the ordeals was from the ninth to the twelfth century. In the continent of Europe, ordeals, in 【30】______ to their use in 【31】______ person accused of crime, were used for political purposes e. g. , by a claimant to a kingship of land to prove he was 【32】______ to the land, by women who were willing to undergo ordeals to disprove accusations of infidelity, and to determine who owned certain lands. In England, 【33】______ . ordeals were used only in criminal 【34】______ .
     Criticism of ordeals was 【35】______ as early as the ninth century. By the twelfth century criticism had become general. It was 【36】______ that ordeals did not necessarily give the correct answer even 【37】______ the answer came from God. This was 【38】______ on the idea that God may wish to punish an innocent person not for the 【39】______ alleged but for some other offense not known to anyone 【40】______ the accused. Therefore, God may consider those accused people to be entitled to anther chance.
【23】
选项 A、memories
B、bookshelves
C、newspapers
D、records
答案D
解析 本句表达的意思是，在6世纪，有一些关于神判法的记录，即records正确。
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