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2021年湖南省普通高中学业水平合格性考试
英语
本试愿卷共6页。时量90分钟,满分100分,
第一部分阅读技能(共两节,满分45分)
第一节阅读理解(共12小题:每小题3分,满分36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。
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BBC:Top 4 Wonderful English Novels
Great Expectations
By Charles Dickens,1861
Great Expectations might be the purest British novel.To re-read
Dickens''s classic as an adult is to discover its wit and brio(生动),its
influence and its truth.Its plot is wonderful.It is a work about love.
Mrs Dalloway
By Virginia Woolf,1925
This is a novel with a long stream of consciousness(意识流).Its plot
is simple.It describes the hero's events in one day,from buying
flowers in the moming and preparing for the party to the end of it.
Middlemarch
By George Eliot,1874
Middlemarch,a novel of great characters,is an even greater novel of
ideas and ideals,.It is the greatest social and psychological(心理的)
novel ever written in English.
形uthering Heights
By Emily Bronte,1847
Withering Heights is powered by more psychological energy than any other
book ever written.Readers love it not only because of its layered narrative
structure(叙述结构),but also itsincredible(惊人的)imagination.
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