单选题
If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Former 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.
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 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 The million 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 Black 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.

单选题 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

单选题 Ibn Battutah traveled ______.
A. to China B. to Ethiopia
C. throughout the Muslim world D. for 16 or 17 years

单选题 The books by 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

单选题 The overall organization of this passage is through ______.
A. chronological order
B. spatial description
C. travel writers' personal narratives
D. persuasive details

单选题 In this passage "attest" means to ______.
A. give an examination to B. draw a map of
C. tell lies to D. give proof of