marco polo was 17 years old when he set out 1 the most famous journey in histo-ry. in 1271 he left italy with his father and his uncle, and he 2 more than three years 3 the middle east and asia. he wanted to reach the court of china’s powerful mon-golian ruler, kublai khan.
marco 4 china in 1275. the khan liked him at once, and marco 5 an im-portant government official. he travelled all over the country and brought back information for the khan.
it was 24 years 6 marco returned to his home in venice. when he finally arrived there, his family and friends were 7 to see him again, because everyone thought that he had died many years 8 . at first, people did not pay 9 attention to the stories marco 10 . then, when venice went to war with genoa (热那亚) marco joined the navy. he was caught by the enemy, and put 11 . 12 he was there, he told his stories to his fellow prisoners to pass the time. one of the prisoners was a writer 13 rusticheno, and he wrote down marco’s adventure in a book. this book 14 the travels of marco polo, and it is still famous today.
marco did not 15 any more journeys after his book was published, but he dreamed that one day he would 16 china. almost seven centuries 17 , his dream 18 . in the 19 , the historical film “marco polo”, 20 by a sino-ltalian team, brought marco back to meet chinese audience.
1. a. on b. in c. for d. to
2. a. took b. spent c. paid d. cost
3. a. cross b. crossed
c. crossing d. to cross
4. a. reached to b. arrived in
c. got d. came
5. a. became b. become
c. changed d. turned
