*第二十六篇              seeing the world centuries ago

 

if you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as arthu亚瑟 frommer弗洛梅尔 or eugene 尤金fodor弗多, it will not surprise you to learn that travel writing has a long and venerable值得尊敬的 history. almost from the earliest annals记录of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic异国的 locales.

one of the earliest travel writers, a greek geographer and historian named strabo,斯特雷波 lived around the time of christ.  though strabo is known to have traveled from east of the black sea west to italy and as far south as ethiopia埃塞尔比亚, he also used details gleaned收集 from other writers to extend and enliven  使生动his accounts. his multivolumed多卷的 work geography provides the only surviving account of the cities, peoples, customs, and geographical peculiarities  特征 of the whole known world of his time.

two other classic travel writers, the italian marco polo and the moroccan摩洛哥人 ibn 伊本battutah白图泰, lived in roughly the same time period.  marco polo traveled to china with his father and uncle in about a.d. 1275 and remained there 16 or 17 years, visiting several other countries during his travels. when marco returned to italy he dictated 口述his memoirs, including stories he had heard from others, to a scribe作家, with the resulting book il milione马可波罗记 being an instant立刻 success.  though difficult to attest 证明to the accuracy准确性 of all he says, marco's book impelled europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration.

ibn battutah's interest in travel began on his required muslim穆斯林 journey to mecca 麦加 in 1325, and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where islam  伊斯兰教 held sway. his travel book the rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys, court intrigues阴谋, and even the effect of the black death in the various lands he visited.  in almost 30 years of traveling it is estimated that ibn battutah covered more than 75,000 miles.

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l. this passage is mostly about ___________.

  a) why people find travel writing exciting

  b) the literary 文学style of three early travel writers

  c) where three early travel writers went and wrote about

  d) how to write a travel book

解析：考查中心思想

   1 if you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as arthur 亚瑟 frommer弗洛梅尔 or eugene 尤金fodor弗多, it will not surprise you to learn that travel writing has a long and venerable值得尊敬的 history. almost from the earliest annals  记录of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic异国的 locales.

2.ibn battutah traveled___________.

a) to china

b) to ethiopia

c) throughout the muslim world

d) for 16 or 17 years

解析：细节问题的考查

   3 two other classic travel writers, the italian marco polo and the moroccan  摩洛哥人 ibn 伊本battutah白图泰, lived in roughly the same time period.  marco polo traveled to china with his father and uncle in about a.d. 1275 and remained there 16 or 17 years, visiting several other countries during his travels. when marco returned to italy he dictated his memoirs, including stories he had heard from others, to a scribe作家, with the resulting book il milione马可波罗记 being an instant success.  though difficult to attest 证明to the accuracy准确性 of all he says, marco's book impelled europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration.

   4 ibn battutah's interest in travel began on his required muslim穆斯林 journey to mecca麦加 in 1325, and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where islam  伊斯兰教 held sway. his travel book the rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys, court intrigues阴谋, and even the effect of the black death in the various lands he visited.  in almost 30 years of traveling it is estimated that ibn battutah covered more than 75,000 miles.

3. the books of the three writers were popular because ___________.

  a) they listed good places to stay

  b) they told of strange and exotic  locales

  c) they explained the best routes to get to places

  d) all of their stories were firsthand accounts

解析：细节问题考查

   1 if you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as arthur['ɑ:θə] 亚瑟 frommer弗洛梅尔 or eugene 尤金fodor弗多, it will not surprise you to learn that travel writing has a long and venerable值得尊敬的 history. almost from the earliest annals  记录of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic [,iɡ'zɔtik]异国的 locale

4. the overall organization of this passage is through ___________.

  a) chronological order时间顺序

  b) spatial description 空间描述

  c) travel writers' personal narratives旅行作家的个人故事

  d) persuasive details有说服力的细节

 

5. in this passage attest means to ___________. 证明，证实

  a) give an examination检查，考试 to

  b) draw a map of

  c) tell lies to

  d) give proof证明，证实 of