[不定项选择题]共用题干 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 learn that travel writing has a long and venerable history.Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audi-ences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales.
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 sur-viving account of the cities,peoples,customs,and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time.
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 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 to the accuracy 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 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 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. 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

[不定项选择题]共用题干 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 learn that travel writing has a long and venerable history.Almost from the earliest annals of recorded time individuals have found ready audi-ences for their accounts of journeys to strange and exotic locales.
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 sur-viving account of the cities,peoples,customs,and geographical peculiarities of the whole known world of his time.
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 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 to the accuracy 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 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 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. In this passage attest means to______.
A.give an examination to
B.draw a map of
C.tell lies to
D.give proof of

[不定项选择题]共用题干 World Heart Day

Sunday was World Heart Day.The World Heart Federation and its member groups in
more than one hundred countries organized the celebrations.The World Health
Organization and other United Nations agencies provided support for the__________(1).
World Heart Day was first observed six years________(2).Organizers proposed
the event as a way to help reduce the spread of heart disease.The World Heart Federation
says heart_________(3)kills seventeen million people each year.
The group urges people to be active and have a good,healthy diet.It also warns
_________(4)activities known to increase a person's risk of heart attack or stroke.
Some of the warnings are directed at children.The World Heart Federation says about
twenty-two million boys and girls under the age of five are obese-severely overweight.
Children are normally energetic and active.________(5),two thirds of all
children are not active enough.Such children greatly__________(6)their risk of
becoming obese.They also increase their_________(7)of developing heart disease or
other disorders.
One message of World Heart Day is to eat right.Children__________(8)eat a
healthy and balanced diet.Also,limit sugary drinks,sweets and eating between meals.
The World Heart Federation urges parents to keep their children__________(9).It
says physical exercise helps to decrease the risk of obesity and_______(10)a child
healthy.Obese children often become obese adults.________(11)you believe your
child is too heavy,talk with a health care provider.
The World Heart Federation is also concerned about the effects of tobacco on young
people.It says the younger someone begins to smoke,the_________(12)the chance
of a health problem tied to smoking.Half of the young people who continue to smoke are
________(13)to die later in life from a smoking-related disease.
The group says almost half of all children live with a smoker. It says children who live
with a_________(14)can breathe an amount of tobacco equal to more than two
thousand cigarettes.And that is by the time they are five years old.
The World Heart Federation also says parents should warn children not to be
______(15)by tobacco companies.And it says parents who smoke should try to stop. _________(13)
A.supposed
B.possible
C.likely
D.lucky