(C).阅读与回答问题。Zheng He was a famous Chinese exp...

(C).阅读与回答问题。

Zheng He was a famous Chinese explorer. In 1405, he set off from China on the first seven great voyages. This was nearly a century before Christopher Columbus fast set sail on his journey of discovery to America. His travels were so important that they are still studied today.

Zheng He was born in Yunnan in 1371. He rose to become a trusted official of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor ordered Zheng He to visit and explore the islands outside China. His task was to develop relations and set up trade routes with foreign countries. In a few years, he built a great fleet of ships, the biggest in the world at that time. The ships were known as treasure ships. They were big enough to carry 25,000 people as well as very large number of goods.

From 1405 to 1433, Zheng He went on seven trips and visited South-East Asia, the Middle East and even the east coast of Africa. It seemed that nowhere was too far for him to visit. These voyages allowed China to trade valuable goods like gold, silver and silk. At the end of each voyage. Zheng He returned with many things that were seen in China for the first time, such as a giraffe from Africa. Besides developing trade, the voyages also encouraged the exchange of cultures and technologies. They helped the development of those countries.

Zheng He died in 1433 during his last voyage. However, his voyages were such a huge achievement that people still remember him as a pioneer in opening up cultural contacts between different peoples around the world.

回答下面五个问题，每个问题答案不超过5个词。

1.How old was Zheng He when he began his first voyage?

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2.What did the emperor want Zheng He to set up with foreign countries?

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3.What were his ships known as at that time?

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4.What was the farthest place that Zheng He visited?

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5.Why were Zheng He's voyages so important in history?

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九年级英语回答问题中等难度题查看答案及解析

Here are the stories about two famous explorers（探险家）.

Zheng He

Zheng He was a famous Chinese explorer. In 1405. he set off from China on the first of seven great voyages（航行）.

From 1405 to 1433. Zheng He went on seven trips and visited South-East Asia, the Middle East and even the east coast of Africa. These voyages allowed China to trade valuable goods like gold, silver and silk. At the end of each voyage, Zheng He returned with many things that were seen in China for the first time. Besides developing trade, the voyages also encouraged the exchange of cultures and technologies.

Zheng He died in 1433 during his last voyage. However, his voyages were such a huge achievement that people still remember him.

Marco Polo

Marco Polo grew up in the city of Venice, in present-day Italy. In 121, when he was 17 years old, he set off on a journey to Asia with his father and uncle and did not return home until 24 years later.

When Polo finally returned to Venice, there was a war and he was captured. While he was in prison, he told the stories of his travels to another man there. This man wrote the stories down in a book called The Travels of Marco Polo.

The stories gave many Europeans their first look at the life and culture of the people in Asia. Polo told of many amazing things that were unknown to Europe, such as paper money. His book made Europeans more and more interested in the East. It also influenced many other explorers, including Christopher Columbus.

Polo died in 1324. His last words were: “I did not tell half of what I saw.”

1.According to the passage, Zheng He went on voyages nearly as far as ___________.

A.Asia B.Europe C.Africa D.America

2.In which year do you think Zheng He was in his last voyage?

A.1405. B.1271. C.1324. D.1433.

3.From the passage, we know that Europeans knew more about Asia ___________.

A.before Polo came back to the city of Venice

B.after The Travels of Marco Polo came out

C.before Polo set off on a journey to Asia

D.after Polo told the stories of his travels

4.From Polo's last words，we can infer（推断）that ___________.

A.Polo liked to tell stories

B.what Polo saw is less

C.Polo still had lots of new things to tell

D.Polo had nothing interesting to tell

5.The common advantage of the two explorers' trips is ___________.

A.to help the exchange of cultures B.to influence many other explorers

C.to write down exciting stories D.to go on a journey to Asia

九年级英语阅读单选中等难度题查看答案及解析

阅读短文，根据短文内容判断所给句子正（T）误（F）.

Zheng He was born in 1371. He was a Ming dynasty explorer. We Chinese people are proud of him. As a captain and palace official, he led seven ocean journeys from 1405 to 1433. At that time, the compass played an important role in his sailing. He even succeeded in sailing to the east coast of Africa. He was a great explorer. He is really the pride of China. He died of illness on his way home from Africa in 1433.

1.Zheng He was a captain of Ming dynasty.

2.He led seven ocean journeys from 1405 to 1433.

3.He died at the age of 28 years old.

4.The Chinese people are proud of him.

5.The compass played an important role in his sailing.

九年级英语阅读判断简单题查看答案及解析

Zheng He was born in 1371.He was a Ming dynasty explorer. We Chinese people are proud of him. As a captain and palace official, he led seven ocean journeys from 1405 to 1433. At that time, the compass played an important role in his sailing. He even succeeded in sailing to the east coast of Africa. He was a great explorer. He is really the pride of China. He died of illness on his way home from Africa in 1433.

1.Zheng He was a captain of Ming dynasty.

2.He led seven ocean journeys from 1405 to 1423.

3.He died at the age of 28 years old.

4.The Chinese people are proud of him.

5.The compass played an important role in his sailing.

九年级英语阅读判断中等难度题查看答案及解析

1--Could you tell me something about Zheng He?

--Sure. He was a Ming Dynasty explorer __ the Chinese people are proud of.

A. which               B. whose          C. whom          D. where

九年级英语单项填空困难题查看答案及解析

—Please say something about Zheng He.

　　　　　　　　 —Oh! He is the Ming dynasty explorer of ______ all the Chinese are proud.

A. who　　　　　　　　　 B. whom　　　　　　　　　 C. whose　　　　　　　　　 D. that

九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

—Please say something about Zheng He.

—Oh! He is the Ming dynasty explorer of ______ all the Chinese are proud.

A.who　　　　　　 B.whom　　　　　　　　　 C.whose　　　　　　　　 D.that

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阅读理解。

Captain James Cook was a famous English explorer(探险者). He was the first European to visit many Pacific islands. He put these islands on maps around the world.

James Cook was born in1728. His parents were poor farm workers. James started to work on ships as a sailor when he was eighteen. When he was twenty-seven, he went into the navy(舰队). He fought a war in Canada and made maps of some of the eastern coast there.

In1768, the King of England sent him to explore the Pacific Ocean. Cook spent three years on that trip. He went to the Pacific again in 1772 and made maps of the coasts of Australia and New Zealand.

He began his third trip in 1776. This time he went to the North Pacific and made maps of the west coast of North America. When he finished making maps there, he went to Hawaii. Then the sailors and the Hawaiians　 started fighting and some Hawaiians killed Captain Cook.

Captain Cook took gifts to the Pacific Islander·. He gave them cattle, sheep, goats and new plants. He was a very good leader of his men. When Captain Cook died, the world 1ost one of the greatest explorers in history.

Judge the following sentences true( T) or false( F) according to the passage.

1.Captain Cook was an explorer of the Pacific Ocean.

2.Captain Cook was born in Canada.

3.He was an explorer before he worked on ships.

4.He took new plants to the Pacific islands.

5.He made three trips to the Pacific.

九年级英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析

Zheng He, a Ming dynasty explorer, 　　　 illness on his way back to China from Africa in 1433.

A. lived on　　　　　　　

B. tried out　　　　　　

C. died of

九年级英语单项填空中等难度题查看答案及解析

1阅读下面的短文，判断文后的句子是否符合短文内容。符合的写“T”，不符合的写“F”。

Howard Carter was a famous explorer(探险家).He loved to visit new places. During his life, he discovered many important and exciting things.

Howard Carter did not go to school. But he was smart and wanted to learn the world outside his hometown. In 1891,at the age of 17,he went to Egypt(埃及) by ship. By the 1920s,he had become an explorer, looking for the tombs(坟墓) of the Egyptian kings.

He found several important ones. Inside the tombs, he found jewels, gold and 10 bodies of dead kings. These bodies are known as mummies(木乃伊).In 1922, Howard Carter made his most important discovery of all. When Carter’s team was working at a place near a city called Luxor, they found the tomb of King Tutankhamen.

Not long after the tomb was opened, people in Carter’s team began to get ill and die strangely.

Within seven years, 21 people who had something to do with the opening of the tomb died However; Howard Carter lived on and died at the age of 65.

1.Howard Carter liked to visit new places.

2.Howard Carter was born in 1877.

3.Carter’s team found the tomb of King Tutankhamen in 1922.

4.The passage tells us Carter’s school life.

九年级英语阅读理解困难题查看答案及解析