2017职称英语备考卫生A级阅读理解练习(1)

2017年职称英语备考卫生A级阅读理解练习
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 lean 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 his time.
　　Two other classic travel writers，the ltalian 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 ltaly 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. 2
　　lbn Battutah's interest in travel began on his required Muslim joumey to Mecca in 1325，and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. 3 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.
　　练习:
　　1. This passage is mostly about__________.
　　A) why people find travel writing exciting
　　B) the literary style of three early travel writers
　　C) where three early travel writers went and wrote about
　　D) how to write a travel book
　　2.Ibn Battutah traveled__________.
　　A) to China
　　B) to Ethiopia
　　C) throughout the Muslim word
　　D) for 16 or 17 years
　　3. The books bf 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
　　4. The overall organization of this passage is through__________.
　　A) chronological order
　　B) spatial description
　　C) travel writers' personal narratives
　　D) persuasive details
　　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
　　参考答案：1.C2.C3.B4.A 5. D
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