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1、高三英语调研考试试题2019-2020年高三英语1月调研考试试题第一部分：听力（共两节，满分30分）略第二部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40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：Worldwide Express(WWEX)Date：September 3, 2014We are writing to inform you that our pany, Worldwide Express(W

2、WEX), now provides the advanced Medical Express Solutions system, a best available packaging and 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

3、for shipping your healthcare materials. Worldwide Express, already a trusted name in packaging and delivery, can guarantee that you can place your confidence in our new Medical Express Solutions.As fierce petition and tighter regulations force panies to operate in a more costeffective manner, the pa

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7、se. Attached, please find a sample copy of our WWEX Airbill Hospital staff simply 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 shi

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9、for your attention.Bill Grawley,President, Worldwide Express21What do we know about Worldwide Express?AIt designs shipping packages.BIts a reliable delivery pany.CIt produces healthcare materials.DIts a newly developed shipping system.22The Medical Express Solutions system _.Awas created by Greensbo

10、roHospitalBhelps solve challenges in the healthcare industryCprovides highquality packaging and delivery serviceDwas designed to protect diagnostic specimens for hospitals23We can infer from the text that hospital staff _.Amust present their personal informationBneed to pack their items before deliv

11、eryCwill open a Worldwide Express account for freeDcan view where their items are during the delivery process24What is the purpose of this letter?ATo remend a superb service.BTo market a patented packaging.CTo advertise healthcare facilities.DTo introduce a trusted pany. BJ. K. Rowling, author of th

12、e 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 hardly the first. A number of others，many of whom, like Rowling, are British, were writing fantasy novels before J. K. R

13、owling 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 literature could hold appeal for older children and even adults. In Phantastes, a young man named Anodos journeys through a fan

14、tasy 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 attractive but troubling fa

15、iry 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 grateful to George MacDonald. It was MacDonalds mythmaking, rather than his writing style, that Lewis admired. Lewiss

16、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

17、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 printed pages but treating its material in the way the Harry Potter series does, is J. R. Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings. The series describes

18、 a group of seven characters who journey together in order to destroy a ring which would give an evil lord power if he gets it. As Lewis does with Narnia, Tolkien invents a universe, which he calls Middle Earth, and peoples, from humans to terrifying creatures called “ores” and “urukhai. ”25What do

19、the four writers in the text have in mon?AThey are all Scottish writers.BThey are all fantasy novelists.CThey are all bestselling writers.DThey have the same writing style.26We can infer from the text that _.APhantastes is a serious storyBLilith is one of MacDonalds early worksCthe Chronicles of Nar

20、nia is a fantasy seriesDthe Lord of the Rings is the earliest fantasy work27It can be learned from the text that _.AJ. K. Rowling was born much later than the othersBMacDonalds works are only popular among childrenCNarnia is the name of a character in Lewiss novelDLewis disliked MacDonalds mythmakin

21、g28The main purpose of the text is to _.Aintroduce several British writersBdiscuss Rowlings Harry Potter seriesCshow fantasy stories influence on RowlingDexplain the development of fantasy literature C“Its all pretty surreal(超现实的); its amazing, fantastic,” Hugo Bugg, 27, said after finding out he ha

22、d bee Chelsea Flower Shows youngest gold medal winner.His Waterscape Garden, in cooperation with the Royal Bank of Canada, was designed to show how gardeners can conserve(保存) and use storm water all year round.The garden has a number of pools for collecting rainwater, which is then filtered(渗透) out

23、into the garden through loose stones.“Because of the severe flooding weve seen in parts of the UK, I wanted to show how even inexperienced gardeners can manage storm water in their gardens through simple techniques,” said Bugg.While those unfamiliar with the gardening world may not have heard of the

24、 young designer, Bugg has been gradually building a reputation for himself-and collecting a number of gardening prizesover the last few years.In 2010 he was named RHS(Royal Horticultural Society) young designer of the year and in 2011 he won a gold medal at the RH8 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show.R

25、HS was founded in the UK in 1804 for the improvement of gardening, and is responsible for the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show taking place in London in May every year.But Bugg, who had studied garden design at Falmouth University, said he was not ready to bee a celebrated gardener yet.Instead, he c

26、hooses to focus on his design business, Hugo Bugg Landscapes. It is based in Exeter, Devon, where he now lives. He said he had received a few offers to do television work but had so far turned them down.Born in Oxfordshire, Bugg said he was five when he first found a love for gardening, when his fam

27、ily moved to “an old house with a large garden” in Devon.“You could say Ive grown up in the garden.” said the awardwinning designer, who remembers spending many weekends clearing the three acres of wilderness(荒地) with his father(Stephen, 66, an art teacher).As RHSs golden boy, Bugg is favorably impr

28、essed by the increased involvement of the new generation.“There are definitely more young people at Chelsea this year, which is fantastic,” he said. “Hopefully, when you start seeing more young people at the shows doing things it will attract more.”29Hugo Buggs Waterscape Garden was designed mainly

29、to _.Ateach people how to avoid storm damageBshow people how to make good use of rainwaterClet people know about the Royal Bank of CanadaDincrease the confidence of inexperienced gardeners30According to Hugo Bugg, the next step of his work is _.Ato run his pany betterBto achieve international fameCt

30、o make more TV appearancesDto win more prizes at garden shows31What is Hugo Buggs wish?AHelping young people to improve their gardening skills.BGreater participation of the youth in the garden shows.CAttracting more people to his WaterscapeGarden.DIncreasing support from new gardening societies.32Th

31、e author wrote the text to _.Ainvite visitors to Chelsea Flower ShowBintroduce a new infiltration technologyCreport an awardwinning young gardenerDdescribe the Royal Horticultural Societys work DThe D. C. public school system is ready to greatly expand its science? technology, engineering and math(STEM) offerings, thanks to a multimilliondollar grant(奖助金) from the pany Lockheed Martin.The global security and aerospace pany announced Friday that it has mitted 6 million to Project Lead The Way, a nonprofit STEM curriculum(课程) provider, to train teachers and build programs