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It is because of his plays that Shakespeare is now considered the greatest English writer in history. The era in which he lived, Elizabethan England, was a time in which broad interests and creativity could flourish. Elizabeth, the queen, was beloved by her subjects and proved to be a powerful and able ruler. Under the reign of Elizabeth, England changed from an island kingdom to an expanding empire. England grew rich through trade. 16th-century Englishmen traveled to the New World and to Africa. Music, dance, poetry, painting, and architecture flourished; but the art form in which Elizabethan England distinguished the rest of Europe was the theater.
The theater, which had practically disappeared from Europe, was, at this time, received as a part of the church service. Later, no longer as a part of the service, the "mystery plays" responded to popular taste by adding more and more comic elements. In England, they were sponsored by various trade guilds and presen
A. enjoyed
B. sponsored
C. encouraged
D. promoted
[单项选择]He left school after taking six O-levels because________.
A. he was afraid that the market might disappear
B. he did not enjoy school at all
C. he wanted to work on computers
D. he wanted to become a millionaire and retire early
[单项选择]What does Shakespeare's remark imply
A. Fashionable clothes are easily to wear out.
B. Clothing changes faster than men do.
C. Fashion makes more clothes poor in quality.
D. Clothing becomes unfashionable long before it has worn out.
[单项选择]The five great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and______.
A. King Lear
B. Julius Caesar
C. Twelfth Night
D. Antony and Cleopatra
[填空题]From science to Shakespeare, excellent video programs __________________________. (大量地提供给教师使用)
[单项选择]Children as young as four will study Shakespeare in a project being launched today by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
The RSC is holding its first national conference for primary school teachers to encourage them to use the Bard’s plays imaginatively in the classroom from reception classes onwards. The conference will be told that they should learn how Shakespearian characters like Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, are "jolly characters" and how to write about them.
At present, the national curriculum does not require pupils to approach Shakespeare until secondary school. All it says is that pupils should study " texts drawn from a variety of cultures and traditions" and "myths, legends and traditional stories".
However, educationists at the RSC believe children will gain a better appreciation of Shakespeare if they are introduced to him at a much younger age. "Even very young children can enjoy Shakespeare’s plays," said Mary Johnson, head of the learning depar
A. How to give pupils a flavour of Shakespeare drama.
B. The fun of reading Shakespeare.
C. RSC project will teach children how to write on Shakespeare.
D. RSC project will help four-year-old children find the fun in Shakespeare.
[单项选择][Al be said [B] was said [C] is being said [D] had been said
[单项选择]Some of the words employed by Shakespeare in his works have become ______ and are no longer used in the present days.
A. obsolete
B. obscene
C. obvious
D. oblique
[单项选择]The group of Shakespeare plays known as "romance" or "reconciliation plays" is______.
A. Merchant of Venice, As You Like It
B. The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale
C. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra
D. The Merry Wives of Winsor, Twelfth Night
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The number of speakers of English in Shakespeare’s time is estimated to have been about five million. Today it is estimated that some 260 million people speak it as a native language, mainly in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. In addition to the standard varieties of English found in these areas, there are a great many regional and social varieties of the language, as well as various levels of usage that are employed both in its spoken and written forms.
It is virtually impossible to estimate the number of people in the world who have acquired an adequate working knowledge of English in addition to their own language. The purposes for which English is learned and the situations in which such learning takes place are so varied that it is difficult to defme and still more difficult to assess what constitutes an adequate working knowledge for each situation.
The main reason for the widespread demand for
A. for both internal and international communications
B. for access to the development in other countries
C. for higher efficiency of the government and better life of the public
D. for wider communications among colonial nations
[单项选择]What about Shakespeare's life is not known to people today
A. His marriage.
B. His birthplace.
C. His education.
D. His plays.
