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Juan Ponce de Leon was the first Spaniard to touch the shores of the present United States. Just as Columbus had not remotely re
Juan Ponce de Leon was the first Spaniard to touch the shores of the present United States. Just as Columbus had not remotely re
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Juan Ponce de Leon was the first Spaniard to touch the shores of the present United States. Just as Columbus had not remotely realized the extent of his momentous discovery, de Leon never dreamed that his "island" of Florida was a peninsular extension of the vast North American continent. After coming to the New World with Columbus in 1493, he had led the occupation of Puerto Rico in 1508 and governed it from 1509 to 1512. In 1509, de Leon started a colony at Caparra, later abandoned in favor of San Juan. He was one of the first adelantados -- men who "advanced" the Spanish Empire by conquest, subjugation of the Indians and establishment of a semi-military government.
In Puerto Rico he heard a legend about an island called Bikini, where there was said to be a spring that restored youth to all who bathed in it. It is said he was seeking this spring when he discovered Florida.
He sailed from Puerto Rico in March 15i3. On Easter Sunday he sight ed the coast. A few days later he landed on Florida’s east coast, near what is now St. Augustine. He named the place La Florida after the Spanish term for Easter Sunday -- Pascua Florida, or "flowery feast." He then sailed around the peninsular and up the west coast. He returned to Florida in 1521.
Which of the following is implied by the passage?
选项
A、Ponce de Leon was the true discoverer of the North American continent.
B、Ponce de Leon rejected the philosophy of the adelantados.
C、Ponce de Leon may have discovered Florida "by accident".
D、Ponce de Leon’s greatest contribution was his discovery of the Fountain of Youth.
答案
C
解析
此题为推论题。A)从第一段中可知,Leon与Columbus一道发现了北美大陆,因此不能单说Leon是真正的发现者。B)根据文中第一段最后一句“Hew as one of the first adelantados”,Leon是“alelantados”的一分子。C)may have done表示对过去发生的事情的推测, Leon有可能“意外”地发现了Florida,“意外”之所以加引号,是因为此发现不是完全无意的,他是在有目的地进行寻找,只是没有找到传说中的泉,而是找到了Florida罢了。D)文中未提
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