浙江省五校2014届高三第一次联考英语试题试卷(2)

    We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that oftentimes seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus we are sometimes affected by fears or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember I had struggled with anxiety. After I left university, I made friends with a Moroccan woman at work. One day she invited me to  21  her and her family back home. I wanted to, but I would have to travel there  22  and I knew we would be in a very rural area. How would I cope with my  23 ?
    Then one day it  24  to me that I had a life to live. I could choose to let anxiety  25  me or I could go to Morocco and  26  something different. I was 23 years old and had never been out of the UK alone. The journey to Morocco  27  something inside me. I managed to cope with my anxiety. The sense of  28  was overwhelming and still to this day when I get afraid of going somewhere alone, I remember how  29  it felt when I arrived in Morocco.
    Upon arrival I was so  30  for the generous welcome I received. My friend’s family had arranged a welcome party. The people were so loving toward me. As a moment of  31  felt in a faraway village, this reminded me that I was “good enough”, which helped to  32  my anxiety.
    Waking up the next day, in the morning light, I saw the area where we were. I was  33  by how rural it was – and the realization that these people had very few  34  .
    In the days afterwards, I traveled around Morocco. We went to Marrakesh and  35  the Atlas mountains. We had the most amazing food – lots of fresh fruits and vegetables.
    At the end of my  36  something inside me had changed. I realized I had not felt anxious for nearly two weeks.
    Experiencing a different culture far away from home helped me to realize what is important in life, what really  37 , and with that my anxiety  38 . When I returned home I was much more active in  39  my anxiety. Working with people, helping them  40  their anxiety, is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.
21. A. send  B. consult   C. call  D. visit
22. A. alone  B. soon  C. free  D. safe
23. A. work B. curiosity  C. homesickness  D. worries
24. A. appeared  B. hit  C. struck D. occurred
25. A. impress  B. control  C. reach  D. persuade
26. A. enjoy  B. experience C. take   D. experiment
27. A. changed  B. moved  C. supported  D. impressed
28. A. achievement  B. fear  C. disappointment  D. embarrassment
29. A. good  B. ashamed  C. afraid  D. proud
30. A. sorry  B. confused  C. confident  D. thankful
31. A. doubt  B. luck  C. love  D. surprise
32. A. improve  B. hold  C. protect  D. reduce
33. A. inspired  B. moved  C. pleased  D. shocked
34. A. lands  B. difficulties  C. resources  D. friends
35. A. discovered  B. explored  C. examined  D. recognized
36. A. opportunity  B. rush  C. stay  D. life
37. A. rules  B. exists  C. matters  D. hurts
38. A. disappeared  B. expanded  C. remained  D. removed
39. A. expressing  B. challenging  C. forgetting  D. remembering
40. A. drop  B. notice  C. pass  D. overcome
第二部分：阅读理解（第一节20小题，第二节5小题；每小题2分，满分50分）
第一节：阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。
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October 15, 1970 was declared International White Cane Safety Day (IWCSD) for the first time by the President of the International Federation of the Blind (IFB). This date was adopted at the first convention of the IFB, held in Colombo on October 4, 1969. The object of the exercise is to enable the general public to have a better understanding of blindness and visual handicap, and to make people more aware of the white cane as a mobility aid.
Peguilly d’Herbemont was born on 25th June 1888 into an old French noble family of the same name. In her youth she led the conventional and protected existence, lack of great activity, of a girl from a “good family”, an existence reminding of the life of the aristocracy(贵族) before the French Revolution. She never visited a public school, but was educated by German and English governesses and nuns. Her movements were restricted and were mainly confined to the family positions in Paris and Belgium, but she spent most of her time at the castle of Charmois not far from Verdun.
In the process of helping individual blind people across the road, Peguilly d’Herbemont was made aware by narrow scrapes(刮擦) which almost led to accidents, of the dangerous situation of the visually impaired brought about by the steadily increasing traffic on the roads. She first spoke about measures to protect the blind against street hazards to her mother in 1930, but she was of the opinion that it was unfit for a lady of good society to create a public outcry and advised her to stick to the transcription of books, a popular pastime of ladies of rank at the time.
But the idea did not leave her. The urgent wish to encourage the integration(成为一体) of the blind into society by providing them with a means of moving about more freely without endangering others, and at the same time attracting the attention of passers-by ready to offer assistance, caused her to take the unusual step of writing to the editor of the Paris daily Echo de Paris in which she suggested issuing the blind of the Paris region with white sticks similar to those used by the traffic police.