根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
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．” 36.____________ Another idea was that at the equator(赤道) the ocean would be boiling hot.
There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much. 37.____________ For so large an ocean it has few islands. Also, it is the world’s saltiest ocean.
One of the longest mountains of the world rises from the floor of the Atlantic. This mountain runs north and south down the middle of the ocean. 38.______________
Several hundred miles eastward from Florida there is a part of the ocean called the Sargasso Sea．Here the water is quiet, for there is little wind．
39.______________ It is, however, not always a smooth and safe one. Storms sweep across it and pile up great waves. Icebergs float down from the far North across the paths of ships.
We now have such fast ways of traveling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. 40.________________ Airplanes fly from New York to London in only eight hours!
A. Some sailors thought they could land at the other end.
B. Today the Atlantic is a great highway.[
C. A fast modern ship can make the trip in less than 4 days.
D. Sailors were afraid that they might sail off the earth.
E. The tops of a few of the mountains reach up above the sea and make islands.
F. Now we can get across the Atlantic much faster than ever
G. Two things make the Atlantic rather unusual.
36--40 DGEBC
The Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New. For centuries it kept the America from being discovered by the Europeans.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．” 36.____________ Another idea was that at the equator(赤道) the ocean would be boiling hot.
There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much. 37.____________ For so large an ocean it has few islands. Also, it is the world’s saltiest ocean.
One of the longest mountains of the world rises from the floor of the Atlantic. This mountain runs north and south down the middle of the ocean. 38.______________
Several hundred miles eastward from Florida there is a part of the ocean called the Sargasso Sea．Here the water is quiet, for there is little wind．
39.______________ It is, however, not always a smooth and safe one. Storms sweep across it and pile up great waves. Icebergs float down from the far North across the paths of ships.
We now have such fast ways of traveling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. 40.________________ Airplanes fly from New York to London in only eight hours!
A. Some sailors thought they could land at the other end.
B. Today the Atlantic is a great highway.[
C. A fast modern ship can make the trip in less than 4 days.
D. Sailors were afraid that they might sail off the earth.
E. The tops of a few of the mountains reach up above the sea and make islands.
F. Now we can get across the Atlantic much faster than ever
G. Two things make the Atlantic rather unusual.
36--40 DGEBC
