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.
() 1. There is often no floor number 13 in _______.
A. restaurants B. countries C. hotels D. Greece
() 2. One way people can count is by using their ___________.
A. fingersB. hotelsC. tablesD. gods
() 3. Some people will never sit at a table with twelve other people. Or______.
A.all of them will leave B.they will wait for two other people to come
C.they will never come for dinner togetherD.they will ask one of them to leave
() 4. The Christian story and the Greek story both talk about_______.
A. Jesus B. the number13C. Balder D. Hotels
() 5. The story is about _________.
A. the death of Jesus B.the person who killed Balder
C.the way people count with their fingers D.why 13 is not a lucky number