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.HamletB.Macbeth
C.Romeo and JulietD.Man and Superman
【小题2】Shakespeare decided to be an actor in _____.
A.1578B.1582C.1599D.1616
【小题3】In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown Stratford-upon-Avon ____.
A.with his wife B.with his daughter
C.with his wife and children D.alone
【小题4】Shakespeare got much money from ______.
A.writing.B.playsC.actingD.retirement
【小题5】According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?
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.

Good morning. The program today is about music. The word “music” comes from the Greek word “muse”. The Muses are the goddesses of the arts. The Music is only one of the arts. It is like the spoken language, but it uses sounds. Today’s program brings together music from different concerts of the world. Who invented music? Who sang the first song? No one knows exactly the answers to these questions. But we know that music plays an important part in almost everyone’s life. Babies and young children love to hear people singing to them. When they are a little older, they like to sing the songs they have heard. When children go to school, their world of music grows. In the middle grades, students take music lessons. When they reach high school, they become interested in listening to pop music. 

The records we have chosen for you today are from American country music, Indian music, pop music and so on. Music has meaning for everyone. It can make people happy or it can make them sad. In this program we shall study the language of music. We shall be trying to find out more about how music works. We shall try to find out how music says what people feel.

Now, here comes the music today , I shall explain why they are all good music.

1.The first paragraph is mainly about the             .

A.styles of music      B.history of music     C.taste of music      D.knowledge of music

2.Which is NOT the purpose of this music program?

A.To study the language of music .            B.To learn more about the music.

C.To give a complete background to the music.   D.To give people some music to listen to.

3.The speaker is probably        

A.a host            B.a singer           C.a dancer          D.a teacher

 

Long, long ago there were only a few thousand people in the world. These people move form place to place over the land, hunting animals for food.

No one knows how or when these people learned about growing food. But when they did, their lives changed. They did not have to look for food any more. They could stay in one place and grow it.

People began to live near one another. And so the first village grew. Many people came to work in the villages. These villages grew very big. When machines appeared(出现), life in the villages changed again. Factories were built. More and more people lived near the factories. The cities grew very big.

Today some people are moving back to small towns. Can you tell why?

1.The best title(题目)of the text should be ___.

A.Cities or Villages                        B.Back to Towns

C.How Cities Grew                        D.People and Animals

2.The underlined word "they" in the second paragraph refers to(指的是) ___.

A.villages           B.animals           C.cities             D.people

3.When factories were built, ___.

A.more people live near the factories

B.people began to live in the factories

C.many people began to work in villages

D.many machines appeared in big factories

4.We can learn from the text that ___.

A.people like to work only in big cities

B.some people don't like to live in big cities

C.there will be no small towns in the future(将来)

D.it is better to live in cities than in villages

5.In what order did people do the following things?

A. Worked in villages       B. Lived near the factories.

C. Learned to grow food.    D. Built factories.

E. Began to live near each other.

A. d, b, a, e, c         B. e, a, c, d, b

C. c, e, a, d, b         D. a. c. d. e. b

 

Is there something strange high up in the world’s tallest mountains? If so, is it a big bear? Is it a monkey? Or is it a kind of man?

No one knows this mystery(谜)has puzzled the world for years.

In 1887, a mountain climber found large footprints(脚印)in the snow. They looked like the footprints of a very large man. But men don’t walk without shoes in the snow!

In 1906, another climber saw more than footprints. Far off, he saw a very large animal standing on two legs. When he watched, it ran very quickly.

Fifteen years later, newspaper had new stories about the “something”. A mountain climber said he had seen the “Snowman” walk slowly across the snow, far below him. He said it looked like a very large man.

From then on, more and more people had stories to tell. But not until 1951 did a mountain climber bring back pictures of large footprints. The pictures showed clearly that the Snowman walked on two legs. So it was not a bear or a monkey? Could it be an ape man? The mystery grew! And the mystery keeps growing. Somebody we may find out just what it is that makes the large footprints.

1.The passage is about _________.

A.some mountain climbers

B.some strange animals

C.some large footprints

D.the mystery of the Snowman

2. Why were people interested in the footprints?

A.They were footprints of a large bear.

B.They looked like the footprints of a large man.

C.People found them in the snow.

D.People found them in the world’s tallest mountains.

3. A mountain climber took the pictures of large footprints in_______.

A.1887

B.1906

C.1921

D.1951

4. Why did the mystery grow when a mountain climber brought back pictures of large footprints?

A.They were footprints of an ape man.

B.They were footprints of a Snowman.

C.The pictures showed clearly how the Snowman walked.

D.The pictures showed clearly how an ape man walked on two legs.

5. Since a mountain climber first found the large footprints in the snow, the mystery of the Snowman has puzzled the world for over _______years.

A.one hundred and ten

B.ninety-five

C.eighty

D.fifty

 

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