北师大版高中英语模块3--Unit 7 The Sea 2

[00:02.48]Zheng He completed seven famous voyages

[00:05.74]between 1405 and 1433.

[00:08.89]He visited many countries in Asia and Africa.

[00:12.37]Zheng He also brought back many gifts

[00:14.95]from the countries he visited,

[00:16.64]such as medicines,pearls and strange animals.

[00:20.70]The most famous of these gifts

[00:22.66]were a giraffe and a zebra.

[00:25.34]When Zheng He came back from his seventh voyage

[00:28.27]in 1433,he was sixty-two years old.

[00:32.35]In 28 years of traveling,

[00:34.75]he had managed to share the glory of China

[00:37.23]with many different countries.

[00:39.36]When he died in 1435,

[00:42.03]the stories of his travels made his

[00:44.43]one of China's most famous sailors.

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