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1、1 2016 湖北省黄冈市高三调研考英语(高三英语 )阅读理解To: Director of Operations, Greensboro Hospital From: Worldwide Express (WW-EX) Date: September 3, 20,14 We are writing to inform you that our company, Worldwide Express (WW-EX), now provides the advanced Medical Express Solutions system, a best available packaging and
2、 delivery service customized especially for the healthcare industry. The transport of materials can be costly, but our service can offer your hospital a safe, inexpensive, technologically advanced method for shipping your healthcare materials. Worldwide Express, already a trusted name in packaging a
3、nd delivery, can guarantee that you can place your confidence in our new Medical Express Solutions. As fierce competition and tighter regulations force companies to operate in a more cost-effective manner, the pace of change in the healthcare market is creating some difficult challenges. Medical Exp
4、ress Solutions helps address these challenges with a fast and reliable transportation system that uses unique protective packaging. By joining forces with Medical Express Solutions, your medical facility will have an unbroken delivery chain, providing temperature-controlled protection for all medica
5、l products and diagnostic specimens (诊断标本 ) at various stages of storage and transport. Medical Express Solutions special packaging system provides reliable delivery of time and temperature-sensitive materials without the need to replace dry ice during transport. Made of recyclable materials, our pa
6、tented packaging is more environmentally friendly and guarantees safe storage, support, and delivery of healthcare-related products in cooled or deep-frozen states for up to 120 hours. In addition, our service is easy to use. Attached, please find a sample copy of our WW-EX Airbill. Hospital staff s
7、imply fill out the information on the Airbill, and Medical Express Solutions takes care of the rest, including the packing. With reliable and speedy service, guaranteed delivery times, and dependable tracking of sensitive shipments, your hospital staff can track the progress of their deliveries at a
8、ll times. Do not wait another day. Phone l-800-290-5992, and one of our experienced staff will assist you in obtaining further information on setting up a WW-EX Medical Express Solutions account for your facility today. Thank you for your attention, Bill Grawley, President, Worldwide Express 21. Wha
9、t do we know about Worldwide Express A. It designs shipping packages. B. It s a reliable delivery company. C. It produces healthcare materials. 2 D. It s a newly developed shipping system. 22. The Medical Express Solutions system _ A. was created by Greensboro Hospital B. helps solve challenges in t
10、he healthcare industry C. provides high-quality packaging and delivery service D. was designed to protect diagnostic specimens for hospitals 23. We can infer from the text that hospital staff_. A. must present their personal information B. need to pack their items before delivery C. will open a Worl
11、dwide Express account for free D. can view where their items are during the delivery process 24. What is the purpose of this letter A. To recommend a superb service. B. To market a patented packaging. C. To advertise healthcare facilities. D. To introduce a trusted company. (高三英语 )阅读理解J. K. Rowling,
12、 author of the hugely popular Harry Potter series, has written her own special magic in the fantasy genre (体裁 ). Though she may be the best-known fantasy writer to the current generation, she is hardly the first. A number of others, many of whom, like Rowling, are British, were writing fantasy novel
13、s before J. K. Rowling was born. One such writer is George MacDonald, a Scottish author, best known for his novels Phantastes and Lilith. MacDonalds work, like Rowling s, showed that fantasy literature could hold appeal for older children and even adults. In Phantastes, a young man named Anodos jour
14、neys through a fantasy land where he experiences magical adventures. While Phantastes is a relatively light story, Lilith, a much later work by MacDonald, is a darker and more serious tale. In this novel, a character called Mr, Vane travels through a fantasy land. There he meets Lilith, an attractiv
15、e but troubling fairy princess; In describing Mr. Vane s experiences, MaCDonald explores the question of what it means to be human. Another British fantasy writer, C. S. Lewis, acknowledged that he was grateful to George MacDonald. It was MacDonalds mythmaking, rather than his writing style, that Le
16、wis admired. Lewis s The Chronicles of Narnia, a tale of mythical power, is a group of seven books tied together more by the fictional world they created than by the description of a particular characters experiences. Narnia is a magical place where animals can talk and time progresses at its own rate. Like Harry Potter and his mates at Hogwarts, the characters who live in Narnia struggle with the conflicting forces of good and evil. Yet another fantasy series, occupying fewer prin
