Travel accounts

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题目与答案

1. | TIME | DESTINATION | TRAVELER | PURPOSE |

   | Classical era | Egypt and Anatolia | Herodotus | To obtain information on 28_____ |

   | 1st century BC | Central Asia | Zhang Qian | To seek 29_____ |

   | Roman Empire | Mediterranean | Ptolemy, Strabo, Pliny the Elder | To gather 30_____ |

   | Post-classical era | Eastern Hemisphere | Muslims | For business and 31_____ |

   | 5th to 9th centuries CE | India | Asian Buddhists | To study with 32_____ and for spiritual enlightenment |

   | Early modern era | Distant places of the globe | The Europeans | To meet the public's expectation for the outside |

   | 19th century | Asia, Africa | Colonial administrator | To provide information on the 33_____ they conquer |

   | By the mid-century of the 1800s | Europe and United States | Sun Yat-sen, Fukuzawa Yukichi | To learn 34_____ for the reorganization of their societies |

   | 20th century| Mass tourism | People from 35_____ countries | For entertainment |

   答案：Persian wars;allies;geographical knowledge;pilgrimage;Buddhist teachers;colonies;principles;wealthy

   原文定位：The Greek historian Herodotus reported on his travels in Egypt and Anatolia in researching the history of the Persian wars;The Chinese envoy Zhang Qian described much of central Asia as far west as Bacteria;while searching for allies for the Han dynasty;Hellenistic and Roman geographers such as Ptolemy, Strabo, and Pliny the Elder relied on their own travels;to compile vast compendia of geographical knowledge;During the postclassical era(about 500 to 1500 CE), trade and pilgrimage emerged as major incentives for travel to foreign lands. Muslim merchants sought trading opportunities;devout Muslims traveled as pilgrims to Mecca;Between the 5th and 9th centuries CE, hundreds and possibly even thousands of Chinese Buddhists traveled to India to study with Buddhist teachers, collect sacred texts, and visit holy sites;Meanwhile, European colonial administrators devoted numerous writings to the societies of their colonial subjects, particularly in Asian and African colonies they established;Asian travelers in particular visited Europe and the United States in hopes of discovering principles useful for the reorganization of their own societies;The most distinctive of them was mass tourism, which emerged as a major form of consumption for individuals living in the world's wealthy societies

2. 36 Why did some people travel in the early days?
   • A to do research on themselves
   • B to write travel books
   • C to have a better understanding of other people and places
   • D to study local culture

   答案：C to have a better understanding of other people and places

   原文定位：Some travelers may have simply desired to satisfy curiosity about the larger world. Until recent times, however, trade, business dealings, diplomacy, political administration, military campaigns, exile, flight from persecution, migration, pilgrimage, missionary efforts, and the quest for economic or educational opportunities were more common inducements for foreign travel than was mere curiosity. While the travelers' accounts give much valuable information on these foreign lands and provide a window for the understanding of the local cultures and histories

3. 37 The travelers' accounts are a mirror to themselves
   • A because they help them to be aware of local histories.
   • B because travelers are curious about the world.
   • C because travelers could do more research on the unknown.
   • D because they reflect the writers' own experience and social life.

   答案：D because they reflect the writers' own experience and social life.

   原文定位：While the travelers' accounts give much valuable information on these foreign lands and provide a window for the understanding of the local cultures and histories, they are also a mirror to the travelers themselves, for these accounts help them to have a better understanding of themselves

4. 38 Most of the people who went to holy sites during the early part of postclassical era are
   • A Europeans.
   • B Muslim and East Asians.
   • C Americans.
   • D Greeks.

   答案：B Muslim and East Asians.

   原文定位：During the postclassical era(about 500 to 1500 CE);devout Muslims traveled as pilgrims to Mecca to make their hajj and visit the holy sites of Islam;Between the 5th and 9th centuries CE, hundreds and possibly even thousands of Chinese Buddhists traveled to India to study with Buddhist teachers, collect sacred texts, and visit holy sites;Buddhists from Japan, Korea, and other lands also ventured abroad in the interests of spiritual enlightenment

5. 39 During the early modern era, a large number of travel books were published
   • A to provide what the public wants.
   • B to encourage the public's feedback.
   • C to gain profit.
   • D to prompt trips to the new world.

   答案：A to provide what the public wants.

   原文定位：By no means did Muslim and Chinese travel come to a halt in early modem times But European peoples ventured to the distant corners of the globe, and European printing presses churned out thousands of travel accounts that described foreign lands and peoples for a reading public with an apparently insatiable appetite for news about the larger world

6. 40 What stimulated the market for traveling in the 20th century
   • A the wealthy
   • B travel books
   • C delicious food
   • D mass transport

   答案：D mass transport

   原文定位：With the development of inexpensive and reliable means of mass transport, the 20th century witnessed explosions both in the frequency of long-distance travel and in the volume of travel writing