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四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】Have you ever wondered where the name “America” came from? Why aren’t the continents of North andSouth America called “Columbusia” after Christopher Columbus? The word “America” actually came fromAmerigo Vespucci, a 15-century Italian explorer. Who made the decision? A mapmaker.Like Columbus, Vespucci traveled to the New World (first in 1499 and again in 1502). Unlike Columbus,Vespucci wrote about it. Vespucci’s accounts of his travels were published in 1504 and were widely read inEurope. Columbus was also hindered because he thought he had discovered another route to Asia; he didn’trealize America was a whole new continent. Vespucci, however, found that America was not contiguous withAsia. He was also the first to call it the New World, or Novus Mundus in Latin, in his books. With the discoveryof this “New World,” maps were being redrawn all the time.In 1507, a German mapmaker named Martin Waldseemüller was drawing a map of the world. He called itthe Universalis Cosmographia, or Universal Cosmography. Comprised of 12 wooden panels, it was eight feetwide and four-and-a-half feet tall. He based his drawings of the New World on Vespucci’s published travelogues,and the mapmaker further used Vespucci’s name “Amerigo” to name the new continents “America.” Mapmakerstended to copy one another’s choices, so Columbus was left off the map. Today, an original of Waldseemüller’smap is permanently on display at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
46. What is the purpose of this passage?
(A) To explain why America was named as it is.
(B) To clarify who had first discovered America.
(C) To give information about mapmaking in Europe.
(D) To compare and contrast two European explorers.

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答案：A
難度：簡單0.833479
統計：A(951),B(90),C(57),D(43),E(0)

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