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广西柳江县2016高考英语(二轮)阅读理解摸底练习（3） 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。 【2014高考英语综合能力测试题】 The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. This book tells a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing it and learn more about her life. Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibition area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for The Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One of Ms Mitchell’s photographs, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She is only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains, “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘would you really marry a woman who works?” The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump”. Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell stopped working as a reporter and was at home recovering after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939, the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 36. From Paragraph 1, we know that visitors can know more about Margaret Mitchell by _____. A. visiting where she wrote Gone with the Wind B. interviewing her relatives about Gone with the Wind C. reading Gone with t