2018--2019学年人教版选修八Unit 1 A land of diversity Using language课时作业 (8)
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  you have a case that naturally inspires a lot of debate. I'm not sure I believe Rowling did anything particularly new with Harry Potter, but a work doesn't necessarily have to be innovative for it to be great. Nearly every fantasy series owes a debt to Tolkien for instance, but that doesn't mean Tolkien has written the only work of fantasy that matters. Rowling didn't really come up with anything new, but the connection she made with tens of millions of readers is praiseworthy. People will be reading Harry Potter for decades to come, and I'm not sure a better introduction to fantasy could be found.

1. What do we know about the two books?

A. King's work The Wheel of Time has a controversial ending.

  B. People have debate on J.K. Rowling's book because of her innovation.

  C. King is blessed with a gift for world building.

  D. Tolkien has a great influence on J.K. Rowling.

2. The passage is most probably taken from ______.

A. a news report B. a book review C. a history book D. a research paper

  My college experience included this life-skill lesson: Drink alcohol on a full stomach. Or you will get inebriated too quickly. Of course, most college students shouldn't be drinking at all, but we know from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism that close to 60 percent of college students aged 18 to 22 do consume alcohol, which makes harm-reducing approaches important.

  Unfortunately, campus authorities and researchers are reporting a practice that turns the full-stomach drinking strategy on its head: rather than filling up before a night of partying, significant numbers of students refuse to eat all day before consuming alcohol.

This is a high-risk behavior called "drunkorexia," which is one part eating disorder, one part alcoholism--a very dangerous combination for college-age students. The term drunkorexia, which can also include excessive exercise or purging before consuming