填空题

SECTION A
In this section you will hear a minilecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening to the lecture take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank paper for note-taking.
Now listen to the mini-lecture.
Did Chinese sailors really discover America before Columbus A new exhibition sets the scene,
presenting new (1)_____. that lends support to the assumptions made in"1421: The Year China (1)_____
Discovered America"by Gavin Menzies.
"1421: The Year China Sailed the World, "is primarily a celebration of (2)_____Zheng (2)_____
He’s seven maritime expeditions between 1405 and 1423. With a fleet of 317 ships and 28, 000
men, Zheng He is generally acknowledged as one of the great naval explorers, but how far he
actually went remains a matter of dispute.
The exhibition starts in Hunnan(China)in 1382, with a (3)_____space giving some back- (3)_____
ground on Zheng He’s youth. When he grew up, he became a scholar and a trusted adviser to the
emperor, Zhu DJ, who sent him on a mission to"proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to
collect tribute from the (4)_____beyond the seas. " (4)_____
Later, China began a policy of isolationism that would last hundreds of years. The large ships
were left to rot at their moorings, and most of the records of the great journeys were destroyed.
Along with examples of spices and other goods that the fleet would have brought back to
China, the visitors can find ancient (5)_____like unusual animal-shaped money from Malacca
made of tin. (5)_____
Arguing that the Chinese had reached America 70 years before Columbus, Menzies’s book
caused a (6)_____when it was published in 2002. (6)_____
"None of the great European explorers actually discovered anything new. The whole world was
(7)_____before they set sail. So somebody before them had done it, and that was the basis of the book, "
(7)_____
Since then, the Web site he created to centralize evidence to (8)_____his book has received (8)_____
more than 100, 000 e-mails from people across the globe coming forward with"massive evidence"
(9)_____his claims. (9)_____
Menzies now believes that Zheng He was not the first to sail to America. "One of the mistakes
I made in my book was to say that Zheng He did everything. He had a (10)_____Most of the world (10)_____
had already been mapped by Kublai Khan’s fleet, " he said.
The exhibition shows copies of Kublai Khan’s maps, recently found at the U. S. Library of
Congress by an academic. The documents clearly show North America. Menzies believes the maps
are from the late 13th century.