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 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 Seawest 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 [[ millione 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.
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This passage is mostly about______ A．how to write a travel book B．the literary style of three early travel writers C．why people find travel writing exciting D．where three early travel writers went and wrote about
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Ibn Battutah traveled______ A．to Ethiopia B．throughout the Muslim world C．to China D．for 16 or 17 years
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】本题问的是：Ibn Battutah到过哪里旅行?根据最后一段的第一句话：he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway，可知，他去过了所有穆斯林的国家。因此B是正确的答案。
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The books of the three writers were popular because______ A．they explained the best routes to get to places B．they listed good places to stay C．all of their stories were firsthand accounts D．they told of strange and exotic locales
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The overall organization of this passage is through______ A．travel writers' personal narratives B．persuasive details C．spatial description D．chronological order