Question

    Everybody knows Columbus in the world. Many people with heavy hearts saw Columbus 1 from Spain,with three small ships on August 3 ,

1492. They thought C luml us was a fool (傻子) when he decided to reach HHHHl India by going 2 from vSpain. India was the land full of some wonderful things,bul reaching it by going west was difficult,because Africa 3 Day after day,they only saw sea water. Some sailors (水手) couldn’t stand (忍受) it and they wanted to come bad There was another thing. People in those days 4 the earth was flat (平的) ，just like a plate. Some sailors were very afraid that they could fall off the earth some day.

     Columbus himself knew the earth was 5 ,so he made sailors go on sailing. Aristotle (384-322 BC) also said in his writings that the  6 was round. He knew it from the earth's shadow (阴影) on the , Moon,and people could see some stars from F'gypt,but they could not see them in the north.

After about a two-month 7,on October 11 . Columbus found a reed (芦苹) on the 8 . All the people jumped happily. The reed told them there 9be land in the west.

And the next morning they found the black 10 far away.

() 1. A. get   B. finish   C. start   D. walk

() 2. A. west   B. east   C. south   D. north

() 3. A. helped   B. stopped   C. found   D. searched

() 4. A. knew   B. saw   C. learnt   D. thought

() 5. A. flat   B. big   C. round   D. far

() 6. A. sun   B. earth   C. moon   D. star

() 7. A. walk   B. ride   C. trip   D. swim

() 8. A. ship   B. floor   C. tabic   D. sea

() 9. A. must   B. may   C. will   D. can

() 10. A. water   B. land   C. people   D. grass

Answer 1

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