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Then felt like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into hi

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问题     Then felt like some watcher of the skies
    When a new planet swims into his ken,
    Or like stout Cortez, when with eagle eyes
    He stared at the Pacific--and all his men
    Looked at each other with a wild surmise--
    Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
    --Keats
    With these well loved lines John Keats recognized the most important geographical event in all the world, excepting only the feat of the Admiral Columbus himself. It was the discovery by European men of a vast sheet of water covering nearly 40 per cent of the globe--the ocean later to be named Pacific by Ferdinand Magellan because of its seeming tranquility. It is too bad that Keats’ beautiful lines erred in naming stout Cortez instead of the equally stout Balboa, a hero of much courage and perseverance.
    Too bad it was, too, for the immortal Vasco Nunez de Balboa, that communications in his day were so slow and uncertain. Had they been better he might well have avoided losing his head for his pains in bringing renown to Spain and incalculable new knowledge to the civilized world. For lose it be did, under the axe at the insance of a jealous governor. [br] The Pacific Ocean ______.
选项 A、is the largest ocean in the world
B、is placid
C、was first seen by man when Balboa looked at it
D、was seen by Columbus
答案 A
解析 太平洋是世界上最大的海洋。作者在第一段说，欧洲人发现一大片水域，覆盖地球的40%面积，这个海洋后来被费迪南·麦哲伦称为太平洋，因为它似乎很宁静。凭我们的地理知识也能选准答案A。
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