2018高级会计师《职称英语》基础班：阅读理解6 (2)

P4.Ibn 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 away.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.

2.Ibn Battutah traveled______

A.to China

B.to Ethiopia

C.throughout the Muslim world

D.for 16 or 17 years

【答案】C

【解析】细节题。Ibn Battutah旅行是关键内容。

【出处】第四段

Ibn 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 away.

划线部分的意思是：在他的有生之年，他去了所有的伊斯兰国家旅行。

3.The books of the three writers were popular because_____

A.they listed good places to stay

B.they told of strange and exotic locals

C.they explained the best routes to get to places

D.all of their stories were firsthand accounts

【答案】B

【解析】细节题。关键词popular

【出处】第一段

Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audiences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales.

划线部分的意思：几乎从早有记载的时期开始，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。

4.The overall organization of this passage is through____

A.chronological order

B.spatial description

C.travel writers’ personal narratives

D.persuasive details

【答案】A

【解析】文章布局要总览全文。

【出处】全文

P2 One of the earliest travel writers, a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo, lived around the time of Christ.

划线意思：公元前后的希腊地理学家、历史学家Strabo,就是早的旅行作家之一。

Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and uncle in about A.D.1275 are remained there 16 or 17 years.

划线：马可·波罗在公元1275年同他的父亲和叔叔去了中国

P4 Ibn Battutah’s interest in travel began on his required Muslim journey to Mecca in 1325.

划线：伊本·白图泰在1325年出发去麦加朝圣，从此开始了他的旅行

5.In this passage attest means to ____

A.give an examination to

B.draw a map of

C.tell lies to

D.give proof of

【答案】D

【解析】词义题，联系上下文。

【出处】第三段

When Marco returned 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.

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