Final answer:
Using simple past and past perfect tenses, the passage narrates Marco Polo's return to Italy after his travels to China.
Explanation:
Marco Polo and his companions reached back Italy in 1295. Nobody recognized them upon their return. They had been away for about twenty-four years and had almost forgotten how to speak Italian. Their families had given them up for dead. Marco Polo told his people strange stories about the things he had seen in China. He said the Chinese did not write out their books by hand; they printed them. At that time, no one in Italy had ever heard of printing, so people found it difficult to believe Marco Polo.
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