Question

【題目】William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in England. He had a sister, Joan, and several younger brothers. They were Gilbert, Richard and Edmund. After William's parents died, he and his sister lived with his mother's brother. At school, he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of 14.

At 28, he moved to London and joined a theater company which opened the Globe Theater in 1599. He became an actor and he also wrote plays. He usually acted his own plays. He__could__make__all__kinds__of__people__pleased. He not only acted in plays, but also wrote his own plays. He got almost no money from his writing, but he made a lot of money from acting.

Shakespeare died at the age of 52. He is a famous ________ in the world. In his whole life, William wrote 37 plays in all. He was the best playwright in England.

31題完成句子；32～33題簡略回答問題；34題寫下文中空缺處的一個單詞；

35題將文中畫線句子譯成漢語。

【1】When William Shakespeare was at the age of 14, he liked ________.

【2】How many younger brothers did William Shakespeare have?

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【3】What was William Shakespeare?

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【4】________________________________________________________________________

【5】________________________________________________________________________

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】watching plays/to watch plays

【2】3/Three.

【3】He was a great writer and actor.

【4】writer

【5】他能讓各種各樣的人高興。

【解析】我們都知道莎士比亞，他是英國著名的劇作家。其實(shí)他也是一個演員，他通常表演自己寫的戲劇。這篇短文中給我們介紹了莎士比亞的生平，我們可以更多的了解這個著名的人物。

【1】根據(jù)短文第一段中At school, he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of 14.可知，在14歲的時候，莎士比亞喜歡觀看戲劇，因此他畢業(yè)后決定成為一個演員。由此可知這里應(yīng)填watching plays。like to do sth.也可以表示喜歡做某事，因此這里也可以用to watch plays。

【2】根據(jù)短文第一段中He had a sister, Joan, and several younger brothers. They were Gilbert, Richard and Edmund.可知，莎士比亞有三個弟弟，他們是Gilbert, Richard和Edmund。

【3】根據(jù)短文中He became an actor and he also wrote plays 以及He not only acted in plays, but also wrote his own plays可知，莎士比亞不僅在戲劇中表演，他還寫戲劇。由此可知他既是一個演員actor，也是一個作家writer。

【4】根據(jù)下句話In his whole life, William wrote 37 plays in all.可知，在莎士比亞的一生中，他寫了37部戲劇。因此這里應(yīng)說他是一個作家，故填writer。

【5】all kinds of 各種各樣的，是一個固定短語；pleased高興的，是一個形容詞。句中的謂語動詞make是一個使役動詞，意思是“使，讓”，常用于句型make sb. +形容詞作賓補(bǔ)，“使某人…”，故這句話的意思是：他能使各種各樣的人高興。