2013职称英语综合B 阅读理解押题3

综合B-3*第二十六篇Seeing the World Centuries世纪Ago之前If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer or Eugene Fodor，it will not surprise惊奇you to lean倾向that travel旅行writing has a long and venerable值得尊敬的history. Almost from the earliest annals年鉴of recorded记录的time individuals个人have found ready audiences观众for their accounts of 重视journeys旅行to strange陌生的and exotic异国的locales.地域(第3题答案出处)One (第1题答案出处1)of the earliest travel writers，a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo，lived around the time of Christ. (第4题答案出处1)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 his time.Two (第1题答案出处2)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 (第4题答案出处2) 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，with the resulting book II milione being an instant success. Though difficult to attest(第5题答案出处) to the accuracy of all he says，Marco's book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration.lbn Battutah's interest in travel began on his required Muslim(第2题答案出处) journey to Mecca in 1325，(第4题答案出处3)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 Back 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.标题“看许久以前的世界”，猜测此文与之前发生的一段历史有关。

中心句----“几乎从最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。

”，这篇文章讲的是“通过游记了解历史。

”并且，游记是广受读者喜爱的。

练习:1. This passage is mostly about__________. ----主题类A) why people find travel writing excitingB) the literary style of three early travel writersC) where three early travel writers went and wrote aboutD) how to write a travel book“mostly大部分”是主题类标志词，文章第二段有“one”，第三段有“two”。

此文分三段介绍三个不同的旅行作家以及他们的旅行经历。

故此应该选C2.Ibn Battutah traveled__________.A) to ChinaB) to EthiopiaC) throughout the Muslim wordD) for 16 or 17 years找到人名做关键词，答案为C3. The books of the three writers were popular流行because__________.A) they listed good places to stayB) they told of strange and exotic localesC) they explained the best routes to get to placesD) all of their stories were firsthand accounts本题通过找关键词较难找到答案，遇到这类情况，应该优先选择与中心一致的选项，B 是中心句中的内容。

4. The overall全部的organization组织of this passage is through__________.A) chronological order时间顺序B) spatial description 空间描述C) travel writers’ personal narrative s自我描述D) persuasive details 有说服力的细节此篇文章是通过时间顺序描写的。

从文章中出现的一些有关年份的数字中找到端倪。

5. In this passage attest证明means to__________.A) give an examination toB) draw a map ofC) tell lies toD) give proof证明of查字典找到答案D英汉对译Seeing the World Centuries Ago看许久以前的世界If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer or Eugene Fodor，it will not surprise you to lean that travel writing has a long and venerable history. 如果你喜欢读类似亚瑟•弗洛梅尔或尤金•弗多这些令人熟知的作家写的旅行图书，那么你就不会惊讶于旅行写作那悠长、令人肃然起敬的历史。

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。

One of the earliest travel writers，a Greek geographer and historian named Strabo，lived around the time of Christ. 公元前后的希腊地理学家、历史学家斯特雷波，就是最早的旅行作家之一。

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. 虽然斯特雷波因从黑海的东部出发，西至意大利南至埃塞俄比亚而闻名，他也借鉴了其他作者的记录来使他的作品内容更丰富生动。

His multivolumed work Geography provides the only surviving account of the cities，peoples，customs，and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time. 他的多卷著作《地理》是唯一一部记录当时世界上城市、人、风俗、地理特征的作品。

Two other classic travel writers，the Italian Marco Polo and the Moroccan Ibn Battutah，lived in roughly the same time period. 大概同时期的另两位优秀的旅行作家是意大利人马可•波罗和摩洛哥人伊本•白图泰。