高考英语二轮复习专项限时训练-阅读理解(三十八)(附答案与解析).pdf
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高考英语二轮复习专项限时训练·阅读理解（三十八） A Tristan da Cunha, a 38 –square –mile island, is the farthest inhabited island in the world,
according to the Guinness Book of Records. It is 1,510 miles southwest of its nearest, St. Helena,
and I, 950 miles west of Africa. Discovered by the Portuguese admiral ( 上将 ) of the same name in
1506, and settled in 1810, the island belongs to Great Britain and has a population of a few
hundred. Coming in a close second –and often wrongly mentioned as the most distant land –is Easter
Island, which lies 1,260 miles east of its nearest neighbor, Pitcairn Island, and 2,300 miles west of
South America. The mountainous 64 –square –mile island was settled around the 5th century ，supposedly by
people who were lost at sea. They had no connection with the outside world for more th