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湖北省天门外国语学校2020届高三上学期英语开学考试试卷
Throughout much of human history, man has been the measure of many, if not all, things. Lengths were divided up into feet and smaller units from the human hand. Other measures were equally characteristic. Mediterranean traders for centuries used the weight of grains of wheat to define (定义) their units of mass. The Romans used libra, forerunner of the pound, by referring to the weight of a carob (角豆树) seed.
The sizes of similarly named units could also differ. The king's foot, used in France for nearly
1,000 years after its introduction by Charlemagne in around 790 AD, was, at 32.5cm,around a centimeter shorter than the Belgic foot, used in England until 1300.Greek,Egyptian and Babylonian versions of water in a fixed container varied from one another by a few kilos, Nor was there agreement on such things within countries. In France, where there was no unified (统一的) measurement system at the national level, the situation was particularly terrible. The lieue (former measure of distance), for example, varied from just over 3 km in the north to nearly 6 km in the south.
Although John Wilkins, an Englishman, first put forward a decimal system (十进制) of measurement in 1668,it was the French who in 1799 made it law. The Système International d'Unités (SI, or the metric system, as it is better known) developed from it and became the official measurement in all countries except Myanmar, Liberia and the United States. Now the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Paris is set to give the metric system its biggest shake-up yet.
At a meeting in Versailles, France, on November 16th,2018,the world's measurement bodies are almost certain to approve a decision that will mean four out of the seven base SI units, including the kilogram, will follow the other three, including the metre, in being redefined in terms of the values of physical constants (物理常数).Each of the chosen constants has been measured incredibly precisely, which would mean that from May 20th 2019 the constants will themselves be fixed at their current values for ever. Any laboratory in the world will then be able to measure, for example, the mass of an object as precisely as the accuracy of their equipment will allow.
Ferry Services Fare Table
Effective from 1st April 2019.
Cash Only is accepted onboard our Ferries.
Return Fares for Mainland to Bressay;
Mainland to Whalsay;
Mainland to Yell;
Yell to Unst.
All Fares are RETURN - Payable on outbound journey only |
|
Passenger |
|
Adult |
£5.50 |
OAPs (With SIC Pass) & Children up to 19 |
£1.00 |
Disabled Concessionary SIC Pass Holders |
£0.00 |
Adult 10 Multi Journey Ticket |
£22.70 |
Vehicles - Fares include driver |
|
Vehicles up to and including 5.50m Return |
£13.60 |
Motorcycles Return |
£11.00 |
Motorhome 5.5m - 9m |
£20.50 |
Motorhome 9m - 12m |
£23.50 |
Motorhome 12m + |
£27.00 |
Vehicle (<5.5m) 10 Journey Ticket |
£90.00 |
Motorcycle 10 Journey Ticket |
£72.00 |
*For Yell to Unst, the fare payable is the same as the other “return fare” routes. However if your journey originated on the Mainland (you have had to use two ferries on the same day or after 18:00 from the day before) then you will only be charged the one fare on Yell. Please retain the ticket you were sold on the Yell ferry for presenting on the Unst ferry. |
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