Most people have heard of Shakespeare and probably know something of the plays that he wrote. However, not everybody knows much about the life of this remarkable man, except perhaps that he was born in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon and that he married a woman called Anne Hathaway. We know nothing of his school life. We do not know, for example, how long it lasted, but we presume（推测）that he attended the local grammar school, where the principal subject taught was Latin.

Nothing certain is known of what he did between the time he left school and his departure（出发）for London. According to a local legend, he was beaten and even put in prison for stealing rabbits and deer from the estate of neighboring landowner, Sir Thomas Lucy. It is said that because of this he was forced to run away from his native place. A different legend says that he was apprenticed（做学徒）to a Stratford butcher, but did not like the life and for this reason decided to leave Stratford.

Whatever caused him to leave the town of his birth, the world can be grateful that he did so. What is certain is that he set his foot on the road to fame when he arrived in London. It is said that at first he was without money or friends there, but that he earned a little by taking care of the horses of the gentleman who attended the plays at the theatre. They stopped and spoke to him. They found his conversations so brilliant（有才气的）that finally he was invited to join their company.

1．In the early life of Shakespeare, he_______.

A．attended a public school         B．lived in London

C．studied Latin                  D．was put in prison

2．Why was he forced to leave his native place according to this passage?

A．Because he didn’t want to go to school.

B．Because he left for London to become famous.

C．Because he had stolen deer and was beaten.

D．No one knows for certain.

3．What is the reason why the world can be grateful?

A．He wrote many world-famous plays.

B．He was an actor.

C．He lived a hard life.

D．He liked to travel all over the world.

Most people have heard of Shakespeare and probably know something of the plays that he wrote. However, not everybody knows much about the life of this remarkable man, except perhaps that he was born in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon and that he married a woman called Anne Hathaway. We know nothing of his school life. We do not know, for example, how long it lasted, but we presume（推测）that he attended the local grammar school, where the principal subject taught was Latin.

Nothing certain is known of what he did between the time he left school and his departure（出发）for London. According to a local legend, he was beaten and even put in prison for stealing rabbits and deer from the estate of neighboring landowner, Sir Thomas Lucy. It is said that because of this he was forced to run away from his native place. A different legend says that he was apprenticed（做学徒）to a Stratford butcher, but did not like the life and for this reason decided to leave Stratford.

Whatever caused him to leave the town of his birth, the world can be grateful that he did so. What is certain is that he set his foot on the road to fame when he arrived in London. It is said that at first he was without money or friends there, but that he earned a little by taking care of the horses of the gentleman who attended the plays at the theatre. They stopped and spoke to him. They found his conversations so brilliant（有才气的）that finally he was invited to join their company.

1. In the early life of Shakespeare, he_______.

A. attended a public school　　　　 B. lived in London

C. studied Latin　　　　　　　　  D. was put in prison

2. Why was he forced to leave his native place according to this passage?

A. Because he didn’t want to go to school.

B. Because he left for London to become famous.

C. Because he had stolen deer and was beaten.

D. No one knows for certain.

3. What is the reason why the world can be grateful?

A. He wrote many world-famous plays.

B. He was an actor.

C. He lived a hard life.

D. He liked to travel all over the world.

4. “In time, as he became a familiar figure…” “in time” means________.

A. on time　　　　　　    B. sometime

C. some time later　　　　  D. some time

5. The best title is_______.

A. The Early Life of Shakespeare

B. Shakespeare’s life in London

C. Shakespeare’s Role in Performance

D. Shakespeare’s Later Life

 

Most people have heard of Shakespeare and probably know something of the plays that he wrote. However, not everybody knows much about the life of this remarkable man, except perhaps that he was born in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon and that he married a woman called Anne Hathaway. We know nothing of his school life. We do not know, for example, how long it lasted, but we presume（推测）that he attended the local grammar school, where the principal subject taught was Latin.

Nothing certain is known of what he did between the time he left school and his departure（出发）for London. According to a local legend, he was beaten and even put in prison for stealing rabbits and deer from the estate of neighboring landowner, Sir Thomas Lucy. It is said that because of this he was forced to run away from his native place. A different legend says that he was apprenticed（做学徒）to a Stratford butcher, but did not like the life and for this reason decided to leave Stratford.

Whatever caused him to leave the town of his birth, the world can be grateful that he did so. What is certain is that he set his foot on the road to fame when he arrived in London. It is said that at first he was without money or friends there, but that he earned a little by taking care of the horses of the gentleman who attended the plays at the theatre. They stopped and spoke to him. They found his conversations so brilliant（有才气的）that finally he was invited to join their company.

1. In the early life of Shakespeare, he_______.

A. attended a public school　　　　 B. lived in London

C. studied Latin　　　　　　　　  D. was put in prison

2. Why was he forced to leave his native place according to this passage?

A. Because he didn’t want to go to school.

B. Because he left for London to become famous.

C. Because he had stolen deer and was beaten.

D. No one knows for certain.

3. What is the reason why the world can be grateful?

A. He wrote many world-famous plays.

B. He was an actor.

C. He lived a hard life.

D. He liked to travel all over the world.

4. “In time, as he became a familiar figure…” “in time” means________.

A. on time　　　　　　    B. sometime

C. some time later　　　　  D. some time

5. The best title is_______.

A. The Early Life of Shakespeare

B. Shakespeare’s life in London

C. Shakespeare’s Role in Performance

D. Shakespeare’s Later Life

 

A decade after terror struck America, we are starting to move forward.

It has been 10 years. In those awful days right after 9/11, I asked my colleague, Dave Barry, if he thought he would ever write jokes again. He was then the humor columnist for the Miami Herald. “For the last week,” he told me, “I haven’t even tried to write anything funny, and for a while I thought maybe I never would, or should.”

He had it; we all had it—that feeling of being stuck, unable to find your way back to the life you had lived before. I wrote 10 columns in a row about what I had seen, the planes crashing, the lives lost. Finally, I had to force myself to write a column about something that was not terror. That last one column. Then I went right back to what was normal.

That was a decade ago. Today’s terrors become tomorrow’s memories. News becomes history. And I find myself remembering how I used to kill ants when I was a child. The thing that struck me was that they always came back. Even if you destroy their world a hundred times, they build it a hundred and one times.

There is something of that in people. It may be one of the best things about us. We always fight the cruel things in life, bury our dead, rebuild, and find a way to move forward. We did it when fire burned down Chicago, after the earthquake in San Francisco, and after the floods in New Orleans. And we did it on September 11.

It is true that we have changed in ways that are not all good. We are at war on three fronts. We are running a strange prison on Cuba. The government may not tell you why.

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Experts tell us the terror group he led is weakened. However, terrorism remains alive in American political thought, which is becoming more extreme.

There is reason to be worried about these changes. But I am still grateful that we moved away from the 9/11 nightmare at all.

64. Which phrase can be used to describe Dave Barry’s feeling just after 9/11?

A. sad but confident                                          B. shocked and numb

C. frightened but hopeful                           D. heartbroken and angry

65. From Paragraph 3, we can conclude that ________.

A. no one ever feels safe anymore

B. there was no terrorism in America before 9/11

C. the author was so shaken that he stopped writing completely

D. many Americans were preoccupied with terrorism for some time.

66. With the example of ants, the author aims to show that ________.

A. he misses his happy childhood

B. he is sorry that he killed the ants

C. rebuilding is more important than sadness

D. people are tough and are able to recover

67. What’s the author’s attitude towards the American government’s policy against   terrorism?

   A. critical             B. supportive              C. uninterested           D. appreciative