阅读下面的三篇短文,根据其内容,从第31-41小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项。
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    Many years ago, a young man traveled all the way from Italy to China. He opened a window to the East for Westerners. His name is Marco Polo, and it is more than 750 years since he was born.
    In Europe people recently made two kinds of gold coins(金币) to remember the birthday of the great explorer.
    Marco Polo was born in 1254. He lived in Venice, a rich city in Italy. Marco’s father and uncle were merchants(商人) . In 1271, his father and uncle traveled to the East with him and then arrived in China in 1275. When Marco Polo was young, he enjoyed listening to stories about the places they had visited.