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THE NORSE IN NORTH AMERICA
1 The Norse made the first documented European voyages to North America, and there is evidence of these visits in the medieval sagas, a collection of stories that tell the history of the Icelandic people．The Icelandic sagas relate how the Norse captain Leif Eriksson and his brother Thorvald were blown off course during a voyage from Norway to Greenland and landed to the west of Greenland, and also describe Thorfinn Karlsefni’s attempt to colonize a place called Vinland．The sagas are a valuable source of details about these early voyages; however, historians have long expressed skepticism about their accuracy．
2 Norsemen ventured far from their homeland in Scandinavia to found settlements on the Greenland coast．One of them, the trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, was blown off course and subsequently discovered a wooded coastline, almost certainly that of Newfoundland． A1though Herjolfsson did not go ashore, this dis
A. colonize
B. observe
C. imagine
D. explore
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THE NORSE IN NORTH AMERICA
1 The Norse made the first documented European voyages to North America, and there is evidence of these visits in the medieval sagas, a collection of stories that tell the history of the Icelandic people．The Icelandic sagas relate how the Norse captain Leif Eriksson and his brother Thorvald were blown off course during a voyage from Norway to Greenland and landed to the west of Greenland, and also describe Thorfinn Karlsefni’s attempt to colonize a place called Vinland．The sagas are a valuable source of details about these early voyages; however, historians have long expressed skepticism about their accuracy．
2 Norsemen ventured far from their homeland in Scandinavia to found settlements on the Greenland coast．One of them, the trader Bjarni Herjolfsson, was blown off course and subsequently discovered a wooded coastline, almost certainly that of Newfoundland． A1though Herjolfsson did not go ashore, this
[单项选择]A. Latin America. B. North America. C. South America. D. Central America.
[填空题]Bears are found in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa.
[填空题]Peoples occupied North America before the arrival of the (1)______
European in the 15th century have long been known as Indians because (2)______
of the belief prevalent at time of Columbus that the Americas were the (3)______
outer reaches of the Indies. Most scholars agree that Native Americans
came into the Western Hemisphere from Asia by the Bering Strait in a (4)______
series of migrations. From Alaska they spread to the east and south. (5)______
Several separate waves of migration are said to count for the many native (6)______
linguistic families, while the common origin used to explain the physical (7)______
characteristics that Native Americans have in common--Mongoloid
features, coarse, straight, black hair, dark eyes, sparse body hair, and
a skin colour range from yellow-brown to reddish brown. Many scholars (8)______
