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　　Christopher Columbus was a great sailor．He was born and grew up in Genoa, one of the oldest European seaports．As a youth he made several voyages in the Mediterranean, where the greatest seamen of ancient times were born．

　　At the age of twenty－four, by lucky chance, he was thrown into Lisbon, the center of European oceanic activities．There, while employed partly in making charts and partly on long voyages under the Portuguese flag, he thought over the great enterprise(事业)that few but a sailor would have planned, and none but a sailor could have completed．

　　His idea was to reach“The Indies”－Eastern Asia by sailing west．It took about ten years to get support for this plan, and he never did complete it because a vast continent stood in the way．America was discovered by Columbus purely by accident and was named for another man．We now honor Columbus for doing something that he never intended to do and never knew that he had done．

　　Yet we are right in so honoring him, for he had the persistence(坚韧)，the knowledge, and the courage to sail thousands of miles into an unknown ocean to make the most splendid and most far－reaching geographical discovery in recorded human history．

(1)

According to the passage, why did Columbus go to Lisbon?
[　　]
A．	In order to learn chart－making．
B．	For no particular reason and without planning to do so．
C．	Because he couldn't find work in his native Genoa．
D．	Because he needed or hired sailors for a voyage to the Indies．

(2)

According to the passage, in Columbus's time Lisbon was the ________．
[　　]
A．	only place he could have gone to complete his education
B．	place of more shipping and sailing business than in any other part of Europe
C．	most important center in the world for ocean exploration and discovery
D．	only place in which he could have found support for his voyages of discovery

(3)

The author of the passage regards the discovery of America as ________．
[　　]
A．	something every man might dream of doing
B．	the most important event in all of the history of mankind
C．	a geographical discovery of the first importance
D．	a curious accident whose importance has been described more than it really is

(4)

According to the author, which of the following statements is true?
[　　]
A．	Columbus spent ten years persuading the Portuguese to support his plan for exploring a new continent．
B．	Columbus didn't mean to sail to America and never realized he had discovered a new continent．
C．	Columbus realized that he had found a good route to the East．
D．	Columbus should be respected for having named the continent that he discovered．

答案：1．B;2．B;3．C;4．B;

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