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阅读理解之词句猜测题(二) (限时25分钟) A (2023·湖北黄冈中学二模)The morning that Devanshi Mavani reached the top of Kilimanjaro, the conditions were bitter. She had set off, like most hikers, the night before to time her arrival at the summit (山顶) with the sunrise. Immediately, heavy snow began to fall. “Normally people see Kenya on the other side. When we got to the summit, we saw nothing，” she says. “It was like a ski slope (斜坡). But I was crying with happiness.” Just 17 months earlier, this trip had seemed impossible. In May 2017, Mavani was diagnosed with type Ⅰ diabetes (糖尿病). She says, “I felt so low, thinking, ‘What am I going to do now in life, stuck with this？’” The news put_in_jeopardy all Mavani's hopes of travelling. She retired the year before and her son eventually flew the nest. “I felt free. It was my chance. I thought, ‘Hooray, I can enjoy life.’” But her diagnosis made her scared to leave the house. Her elder sister came to help, but Mavani “couldn't walk to the local park” without feeling unwell. Very slowly, Mavani built herself up from walking around the block to taking gentle gym classes. It was there that she met Hazel, who invited her to a talk about climbing Kilimanjaro. When Mavani returned home that evening, she told her husband that it was something she really wanted to do. “The hike was the following year, when I was turning 60. He said, ‘You've got time.’ It was the best thing I did. It took my focus away from worrying about my disease to something completely different. How am I going to get fit again? How am I going to cope with this huge hike so far outside my comfort zone？” During the seven­day trek, Mavani had to inject (注射) herself five to eight times a day. “It was －16℃ outside; I had to take off all my clothes, lying on a snowy rock. I overcame all that，” she says. “I thought, I don't fear the diabetes. If I can do this, I can do anything.” Mavani recently completed the West Highland Way and the Cotswolds Way, and has booked a trip to Machu Picchu in