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Unit 2 Exploring English
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(2023·福州市高中质量检测)Fatima has been the only woman working as a tour guide in Afghanistan. The 22yearold grew up leading _____1____ through the countryside, and now she leads tourists through the streets of Herat, the third largest city in Afghanistan.
She grew up in rural Gohr Province, where there was no schooling ____2____ to girls, but she convinced her family to let her take ____3_____ if she brought in enough of an income from sheep herding. She practiced her English by listening to BBC radio, which she could ____4____ when high enough in the hills.
“I thought a lot during these years,” Fatima says. “My brothers and sisters were ____5____to get married. I decided that I would not continue in the ____6____. That was how I decided to work.”
She signed up for Facebook and began joining groups for people interested in history.____7____that people only knew Afghanistan as a place of war and conflict, she started writing regular posts about places in her country that foreigners might not know about.
After she began writing her _____8____ everything changed. Fatima started getting comments and responses from her new online friends. In 2020, one of them — a man known as “Big Tom” — _____9____ out to her saying he was going to be traveling in Afghanistan and if she would be interested in ____10____ him around in Herat.She said yes.
Tom recommended her to someone else, and Fatima continued to get work by word of mouth. Eventually she came to the ____11____ of Untamed Borders, a boutique (精品的) travel agency that specializes in trips to more inaccessible areas. The company hired her in late 2020, and the young selftaught woman became her country's first female professional tour guide.
Of course, being a pioneer is never _____12____. Fatima says many people in her life, including some of her family members, have told her that it's too dangerous for a woman to work, ____13____ if it means interacting with men oneonone. Sometimes children t