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综合类精讲班讲义第25讲
第4部分：阅读理解（第31~45题，每题3分，共45分。）
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项。
第五篇
Seeing the World Centuries Ago
If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer or Eugene Fodor， it will not surprise you to leam that travel writing has a long and venerable history. Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales. (1)
One of the earliest travel writers， a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo， 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， he also used details gleaned from other writers to extend and enliven his accounts. His multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of the cities， peoples， customs， and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of histime
Two other classic travel writers， the Italian Marco Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah， 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 retumed to Italy he dictated his memoirs， including stories he had heard from others， to a scribe， with the resulting book Il milione being an instant success. Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says， Marco's book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration.(2)
lbn Battutah's interest in travel began on his required Muslim journey to Mecca in 1325. and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. ；' His travel book the Rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys， court intrigues， 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 75，00() miles.
词汇：
venerable／'venərəbəl／adj.庄严的，值得尊敬的
enliven /in'Iaivən/v．使生动account／a'kaunt／，z．记述
voyage /' vɔiidʒ /凡．航行
exotic／ig'zɔtik/V．异闰的，外来的
注释：
1. Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales．几乎从最早有时间记载开始，人们就发现，他们对去一个陌生地方旅行的记录是不乏读者的。
2．…Marco's book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration．……马可的书促使欧洲人开始了他们伟大的航海探索之旅。’
3．he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway.……他去了所有伊斯兰教掌权的国家旅行