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1、湖北省黄冈中学湖北省黄冈中学 2016 年元月高三年级调研考试英语试题年元月高三年级调研考试英语试题考试时间：考试时间：150150 分钟分钟 满分：满分：120120 分分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分第一部分：听力（共两节，满分 30 分）分）略第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分 40 分分)第一节(共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分)阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。ATo：Director of Operations, Greensboro HospitalFrom：Worldwid
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12、a patented packaging.CTo advertise healthcare facilities.DTo introduce a trusted company.B BJ. K. Rowling, author of the hugely popular Harry Potter Series, hag written her own special magic in tile fantasy genre(体裁). Though she may be the bestknown fantasy writer to the current generation, she is h
13、ardly the first. A number of others，many of whom, like Rowling, are British, were writing fantasy novels 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 Rowlings, showed that fantasy literatu
14、re could hold appeal for older children and even adults. In Phantastes, a young man named Anodos journeys 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 n
15、ovel, a character called Mr. Vane travels through a fantasy land. There he meets Lilith, an attractive but troubling fairy princess; in describing Mr. Vanes experiences, MaCDonald explores the question of what it means to be human.Another British fantasy writer, C. S. Lewis, acknowledged that he was
16、 grateful to George MacDonald. It was MacDonalds mythmaking, rather than his writing style, that Lewis admired. Lewiss 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 Hogwar
