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Michigan lower-ecce Reading passages exam practice.
Time allowed 15 minutes, You must finish the test within 15 minutes.
To pass the test successfully you must finish the test within the time limit and get at least 80% correct answers,
otherwise repeat the test until you get 80% or over.
Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.

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Please write the correct answer a, b, c or d.
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In the year 1271, Marco Polo, a youth of seventeen set off with his father and his uncle on an epoch-making journey from Venice to Cathey. The journey was to last for twenty-four years and was to take them into regions completely unknown to the Europeans of the day.
It was Marco's father, Nicolo, who first fired the boy's imagination with the mystery and wonder of the East. The Polo's wealthy traders in ivory, gold, spices, silk and precious stones had travelled widelyin the Near East. The countries Tartary (Siberia) and Cathay (China) from where many of their goods came were just names to them.

In 1260 Nicolo and his brother Maffeo set off on the long journey to Cathay. This journey which would, they felt, satisfy their curiosity as well as bring them profit, took them all the way to the court of Kublai Khan. Kublai, certainly less savage and brutal than his grandfather, Genghis Khan, who had carved out this great empire, was still a monarch who inspired universal fear, and it was with some trepidation that the Polos arrived at the palace. The great Khan was a man of considerable cultivation and, his curiosity perhaps aroused by these strangers - he had never seen a European before - be received them kindly, showing great interest in European customs and in Christianity. When be finally permitted them to leave; he made them promise to return again. This they did, in 1271, two years after they returned to Venice, taking Marco with them.

1.The Polos
A had never heard of China.
B had no idea where China was.
C had no interest in China.
D did not trade with China.

2 Nicolo Polo
A wanted Marco to stay at home.
B aroused Marco's interest in the world.
C educated Marco himself.
D taught Marco Chinese.

3. Nicolo and Maffeo made their journey
A to visit Kublai Khan.
B to discover Peking.
C in order to make money.
D to find out about Siberia and China.

4. As the Polos approached Kublai Khan's court, they felt
A relieved. B excited. C nervous. D happy.

5. Nicolo and Maffeo returned to Venice in
A 1271. B 1269. C 1260. D 1262

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