Zheng_He,_Magellan_(麦哲伦),_Vasco_da_Gama_(达·伽马),_Bartholomeu_Dias_(迪亚斯),_James_Cook_(库克船长),_Christopher_Columbus_(哥伦布)。

　　2．Match the following navigators with their main sailing experiences.

　　　________　 　________　 　________　　________

　　a．sailed directly from Europe to India

　　b．led seven expeditions to what the Chinese called "the Western Ocean" (Indian Ocean)

　　c．led to general European awareness of the American continents

　　d．sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488

　　答案：(1)～(4)　cbad

　　Ⅰ.Fast­reading

　　True (T) or False (F)．

　　1．Columbus reached America earlier than the Vikings.(　　)

　　2．The ancestors of the Vikings were from Scandinavia.(　　)

　　3．Eric the Red decided to set sail further west in 900 AD.(　　)

　　4．Eric the Red left Iceland because he had committed a murder.(　　)

　　5．All of Eric's twenty­five ships reached Greenland successfully.(　　)

　　6．Leif chose different directions from Biarni's and sailed to Canada.(　　)

　　答案：1～6　FTFTFF

　　Ⅱ.Careful­reading

　　Read the text carefully and then fill in the chart with the information in the text.

　　The Spirit of Explorers

A brief 1.history

of the Vikings Their ancestors came from 2.Scandinavia．Between the 8th and 10th centuries they controlled the seas and coasts of 3.Northern Europe and in 982 AD, there were as many as 4.10，000 Vikings living in Iceland. Three major discoveries when who what why & how The first In 982 AD 5.Eric

the_Red discovered

Greenland He was forced to leave Iceland because he had committed a murder and he fled to Greenland.