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高考英语模拟试题（2 ）（3 ） B “The 13th of June, 1325, I left Tangier, my birthplace, with the intention of making thepilgrimage(朝圣)to Mecca...to leave all my friends, to abandon my home as birds abandontheir nests.” So begins an old manuscript in a library in Paris—the travel diary of Ibn Battuta. Almost two centuries before Columbus, this young Moroccan set off for Mecca, returning homethree decades later as one of history’s great travelers. Driven by curiosity, he journeyed toremote corners of the Islamic world, traveling through 44 modern countries, three times as faras Marco Polo. Little celebrated in the West, his name is well known among Arabs. In hishometown of Tangier, a square, a hotel, a cafe, a ferry boat, and even a hamburger are namedafter him. Ibn Battuta stayed in Mecca as a student for several years, but the urge to travel soon tookover. In one adventure, he traveled to India seeking profitable employment with the sultan—the Muslim ruler of Delhi. On the way, he described his group being attacked in the opencountry by 80 men on foot, and two horsemen: “…I was hit by an arrow and my horse byanother, but God in his grace preserved me ...” In Delhi, the sultan gave him the position ofjudge, based on his previous study at Mecca. But the sultan had an unpredictable character,and Ibn Battuta looked for an opportunity to leave. When the sultan offered to finance a tripto China, he agreed. Ibn Battuta set off in three ships, but misfortune struck while he was stillon the shore. A sudden storm grounded and broke up two ships, scattering ( 散 播 )treasureand drowning many people and horses. As he watched, the third ship, with all his belongingsand slaves—one carrying his child—was carried out to sea and never heard from again. After a lifetime of