首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Gavin lived in China when his father was staying in ______.
Gavin lived in China when his father was staying in ______.
admin
2009-06-24
29
问题
Gavin lived in China when his father was staying in ______.
W: What attracted you to China?
M: I went there when I was just two weeks old. My father was in the Navy at a time when there were a lot of British naval bases in China. I lived there for two years, before the Second World War. Later, when I was in the Navy, we went to Hong Kong. When I retired I just really wanted to go back.
W: How did your research begin?
M: Fourteen years ago, when my wife and I went to China for our silver wedding anniversary, I became fascinated with the year 1421 when Emperor Zhu Di—who had sent his loyal eunuch admirals on a quest to voyage around the world—moved this capital to the north to defend the country.
W: How are you rewriting history?
M: I used charts to show how the Chinese would have been able to explore the world, reaching America 70 years before Columbus and circumgyrating the globe a century before Magellan. I also looked at maps that proved the Europeans had prior knowledge of places they had yet to reach.
W: What evidence is there that the Chinese explored the world before Europeans?
M: One of many examples is that the Amazon River was shown on European maps from 1440 onwards, a century before Europeans reached it. Items only found in Southeast Asia, such as jade, Chinese chickens, rice—which couldn’t survive being taken across the Bering Strait—and DNA in people, are found around Cuiaba, Brazil. I was contacted by a walnut farmer in Sacramento who told me that there’s a Chinese ship buried beside the Sacramento River on his property, 110 kilometres inland. Its wood is dated to 1410 and is unique to southwest China.
W: What makes you think European explorers used Chinese charts?
M: Magellan quelled a mutiny by proving his knowledge of their route; he had a map. This is all quoted in his log. It couldn’t have been something he created as he went along because in his prior letters to the King of Spain, who had a copy of the map, he requests that the chart not be shown to anyone so that he can’t be followed.
W: Tell me about your talk at BBC.
M: It was a bit of a media frenzy really. It was absolutely luck though. Chinese television arrived in London on the day the Daily Telegraph published an article on my claim. They saw it and transmitted my talk back to China. NBC and ABC learned the Chinese reaction back to America. in all, about two billion people watched the talk. I’ve had thousands of letters since, and a stream of new information has poured in.
W: Did your naval knowledge help your investigation?
M: Yes, it did. I often used Canopus, the second brightest star, to navigate from submarines, as you can see it through a periscope. Chinese astronomers long sought to find the exact position of Canopus, and lots of expeditions were sent off to do so. This was a breakthrough for me. I was looking at a pre-European chart of Patagonia that had been drawn incredibly accurately because whoever had done it had been right underneath Canopus—which meant it could only be the Chinese. Also, having looked at Caribbean islands through a submarine periscope during my career, and finding out how sea levels have changed over time, I recognized two previously unidentified islands on a 1424 chart by the Venetian cartographer Zuane Pizzigano as Guadeloupe and Puerto Rico.
W: How did you feel when you made these breakthroughs alone?
M: When I got about two-thirds of the way through the story, I thought there was no doubt about it—the Chinese really did discover Australia and the Americas before the Europeans. "This is too much of a good thing", I thought. I then tried to corroborate my findings and found to my relief that there was a lot of evidence out them. That allowed me to sleep a lot easier.
W: What do you think the next revelation about Chinese discoveries will be?
M: The next furore will be about Bimini, a sand-spit island 80 kilometres east of Miami that features something called the Bimini Road. It leads from a sandy beach into the depths and is built from huge stone blocks. Some claim it leads to Atlantis. I’m certain the Chinese built it from ballast when their fleet was stranded there after a hurricane.
选项
答案
1421
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ZzTd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
WeatherMapAweathermapisanimportanttoolforgeographers.Asuccessionofthreeoffourmapspresentsacontinuouspi
FinancingCollegeTrainingHighschoolstudentswho,aftergraduation,wouldliketocontinuetheireducationarefrequently
FinancingCollegeTrainingHighschoolstudentswho,aftergraduation,wouldliketocontinuetheireducationarefrequently
ValuingChildhoodThevalueofchildhoodiseasilyblurred(变得模糊不清)intoday’sworld.Considersomerecentdevelopments:The
Whentheauthorwasachild,hewasmadetohelphisfatherworkbecauseAttheageof12,theauthorgotajobatarestaurant
HeatIsKillerExtremelyhotweatheriscommoninmanypartsoftheworld.Althoughhotweatherjustmakesmostpeoplefeel
Youcouldtellfromhisbigearsthathetookafterhisfather.
Theconferenceexploredthepossibilityofclosertradelinks.
TheInternetHouseAleadingBritishbuildinganddesigncompanyhasjustannouncedtheirplansforthehomeofthefuture.T
随机试题
求对坐标的曲线积分,其中L是x=0,y=0,x+y=1所围成的正向边界曲线
如果说一般环境对各类组织均会产生相似的影响,那么组织的具体环境,即与具体使命和任务相关的具体环境会对特定的组织产生某种直接影响。以下哪项不属于组织的具体环境()
戏剧作品:《哈姆雷特》
小儿出生时即可能存在,又终生不变的神经反射不包括
根据脏层胸膜破口的特点,气胸可分为
用人单位不得安排女职工在哺乳未满()周岁的婴儿期间从事国家规定的第三级体力劳动强度的劳动和哺乳期禁忌从事的其他劳动,不得安排其延长工作时间和夜班劳动。
甲股份有限公司(以下简称甲公司)为中外合资汽车制造企业,主要生产中、低排量轿车。ABC会计师事务所的A注册会计师负责对甲公司2014年度财务报表实施审计。审计业务约定书要求ABC会计师事务所于2015年2月25日(财务报表批准日)提交审计报告。其他相关资料
每年农历的正月十五是元宵节,元宵节又称为“上元节”。()
雾霾天气是一种大气污染状态,雾霾是对大气中各种悬浮颗粒物含量超标的笼统表述。()被认为是造成雾霾天气的“元凶”。
YouCallItMusic,TheyCallItanAirRaidSongscanhaveapowerfuleffectonpeople.Play"Gypsies,TrampsandThieves"
最新回复
(
0
)