求阅读理解的答案 是英语的 D篇

求阅读理解的答案 是英语的 D篇
The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New .For centuries it kept the Americans from being discovered by the people of Europe.
Many wrong ideas about the Atlantic made early sailors unwilling to sail far out into it .One idea was that it reached out to " the edge of the world ".Sailors were afraid that they might sail right off the earth .Another idea was that at the equator the ocean would be boiling hot.
The Atlantic Ocean is only haft as big as the Pacific ,but it is still very large .It is more than 4,000 miles wide where Columbus crossed it .Even attits narrowest ,it is about 2,000 miles wide.
Two things make the Atlantic Ocean rather unusual.For so large an ocean it has very few islands .Also ,it is the world's saltiest ocean.
There is so much water in the Atlantic Ocean that it is hard to imagine how much there is .But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers ,it would take the ocean about 4,000 years to dry up.
Today the Atlantic is a great highway.It is not ,however ,always a smooth and safe one .We now have such fast ways of travelling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller .Co - lumbus sailed for more than two months to cross it .A fast modern steamshop can make the trip in less than our days .Planes fly from New York to London in only eight hours and from South America to Africa in four.
1.In fact ," the edge of the world " __.
A.is a long distance from the Atlantic B.is right off the earth
C.separates the Old World trom the New
D.does not exist because the earth is round like a ball
2.For hundreds of years ,the Atlantic Ocean __.
A.made the people of Europe discover the Americans.
B.made the Americans discover the people of Europe
C.kept the Americans unkonwn to the people of Europe
D.kept the Americans under cover
3.The Pacific is __.
A.as large as the Atlantic Ocean B.twice as large as the Atlantic Ocean
C.only haft as large as the Atlantic Ocean D.twice as wide as the Atlantic Ocean
4.The Atlantic Ocean appears different than other ones with __.
A.lots of water in it B.very few islands in it
C.a large amount of salt in its water D.Both B and C
5.The Atlantic Ocean seems to have grown smaller because __.
A.it is a great highway B.Columbus sailed across it
C.ways of traveling become faster and faster
D.it takes more time to make a trip by ship than by plane