题目内容
In England，nobody under the age of l8 is allowed（允许）to drink in a public（公共的）bar．Mr. Thompson used to（过去常常）go to a bar near his house quite often，but he never took his son Tom，because he was too young．Then when Tom had his eighteenth birthday, Mr. Thompson took him to his usual bar for the first time．They drank for half an hour, and then Mr. Thompson said to his son．“Now Tom．I want to teach you a useful lesson．You must be always careful not to drink too much．And how to know when you’ve had enough? Well．I’ll tell you．Do you see those two lights at the end of that bar? When they seem（看起来）to become four, you’ve had enough and should go home” “But, sir．”Said a waiter nearby “There is only one light at the end of the bar．”
（ ）1．In England，anybody can’t drink in a public bar until he is ______years old．
A．sixteen B．seventeen C．eighteen
（ ）2．Were there four lights at the end of the bar? _______．
A．Yes．there were． B．No．there weren’t．C．I don’t know
CB
Willam Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth .He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.
He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer’s daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter .Later they had twins. In1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind .No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.
At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays .He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.
At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world..
【小题1】Shakespeare wrote many famous plays except（除了） __________.
| A．Hamlet | B．Macbeth |
| C．Romeo and Juliet | D．Man and Superman |
| A．1578 | B．1582 | C．1599 | D．1616 |
| A．with his wife | B．with his daughter |
| C．with his wife and children | D．alone |
| A．writing. | B．plays | C．acting | D．retirement |
| A．Shakespeare had two children. |
| B．Shakespeare wrote both plays and poems. |
| C．Shakespeare left his money to the Globe Theatre. |
| D．Shakespeare wrote plays in English and some other languages. |
