2014高考英语二轮阅读理解限时训练精品题19及答案高考.docVIP

2014高考英语二轮阅读理解限时训练精品题（19）及答案 [史地自然型阅读理解(一)]-----(一) The Pacific island nation of Nauru used to be a beautiful place.Now it is an ecological disaster area.Naurus heartbreaking story could have one good consequence—other countries might learn from its mistakes. For thousands of years，Polynesian people lived in the remote island of Nauru，far from western civilization.The first European to arrive was John Fearn in 1798.He was the British captain of the Hunter, a whaling ship.He called the island Pleasant Island. However, because it was very remote, Nauru had little communication with Europeans at