2012年职称英语考试用书重点篇章练习Seeing the World Centuries Ago .docVIP

2012年职称英语考试用书重点篇章练习：Seeing the World Centuries Ago 2012年职称英语考试用书有一定的变化，今年新增了很多篇目。小编提醒考生要抓紧时间来复习了。目前职业培训教育网职称英语课程基础班已经开通到第五部分了，后面内容也会尽快开通，建议考生抓紧时间听课。下面是在职称英语教材里面的一些重要的文章篇目，都有详细的解题思路，希望对考生有帮助！ Seeing the World Centuries Ago If you enjoy looking through travel books by such familiar authors as Arthur Frommer 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.1 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 ltalian 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 ltaly he dictated his memoirs，including stories he had heard from others，to a scribe，with the resulting book II milione being an instant success.Though difficult to attest to the accuracy of all he says，Marcos book impelled Europeans to begin their great voyages of exploration. 2 lbn Battutahs interest in travel began on his required Muslim joumey to Mecca in 1325，and during his lifetime he journeyed through all the countries where Islam held sway. 3 His travel book the Rihlah is a personalized account of desert journeys，court intrigues，and even the effect of the Back Death in the various lands he visited . In almost 30 years of traveling it is