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阅读下面短文，从每题所给四个选项中选出最佳答案。
Twenty Thousand Miles under the Sea is a fascinating tale of adventure with Captain Nemo(“No Name”) in his submarine(海下的) ship, the Nautilus. Jules Verne had been around ships and boats most of his life. But his first trip to America in 1867 was his first ocean voyage. The ship which carried Jules Verne from his native France was the Great Eastern, which was used to lay the first successful Atlantic cable(电缆) linking England and America the year before. Verne made the most of his opportunity. With his notebook, he followed the crew members around. What kind of submarine life had they caught? What kind of fish had they seen? What seaweeds? What shells? What did they know about the ocean's currents(洋流)? Its channels? Its depths and shallows? Six weeks later Verne was home again with his notebook filled on his voyage. He went aboard his little boats where he always wrote. On the desk were piles of papers on which he had attempted to design submarines. Surely, he thought, his next book was meant to be about life at the bottom of the sea, life in a submarine. Not a tiny, clumsy craft like all of them so far. Not a miserable model likely to bring death to men in it. It would be a giant undersea boat. It would have comfort yet undreamed of. Twenty Thousand Miles under the Sea appeared three years later. It delighted everyone. “A splendid story,” most readers said, “Utterly impossible, but exciting!”
1．According to this passage, the Nautilus was the ________.
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A．first practical submarine
B．invention of Captain Nemo
C．product of Verne's imagination
D．imagination of Captain Nemo
2．Verne's questions were mainly about the crew's ________.
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A．problems in laying the cable
B．discoveries about the sea
C．struggle with a sea monster(怪物)
D．descriptions about the submarine
3．What should the imaginative submarine be according to Verne?
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A．A comfortable big undersea ship yet undreamed of.
B．A tiny, clumsy craft like all of them so far.
C．A miserable model likely to bring death to men in it.
D．A comfortable, small undersea boat that could move swiftly.
4．Verne wrote this book in order to ________.
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A．lead to better understanding between Europe and America
B．encourage men to try things though impossible
C．lead to discoveries in the centre of the earth
D．entertain people by a story that could never happen
