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England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theatre writ?ten throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have some?thing in common. They usually come from a playwright (剧作家)with several famous plays.

Shakespeare

   William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalogue (目录)of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet, Macbeth , Romeo and Juliet , Othello and Julius Caesar are all tragedies and performed in thea?tres around the world every year. Famous comedies in?clude A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing, In the history category, RichardW and Heivy V are very famous.

Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw

   Several hundred years after Shakespeare , English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde's plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both per?formed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more pro?ductive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw's plays are loved so much that an en?tire theatre company is devoted to performing his work in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.

Harold Pinter

   The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an interna?tional presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Lit?erature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and his first play. The Room , are extremely well known.

24.  The writer wrote this passage to ,

  A.  advise us to spend more time enjoying plays

B.  explain why England has so many wonderful plays

C.  tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works

D.  tell us the differences among some British play?wrights

25.  What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in common?

  A.  They are all Shakespeare's early works.

B.  They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.

C.  They arel Shakespeare's famous comedies.

D.  They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare's plays.

26.  Which of the following plays were most probably Written in the same period of time?

   A.  The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance.

B.  Richard HI and A Woman of No Importance.

C.  An Ideal Husband and Candida.

D.  Candida and Betrayal.

27.  Who had received the Nobel Prize because of his writing?

  A.  William Shakespeare.

B.  Oscar Wilde.

C.  George Bernard Shaw.

D.  Harold Pinter.



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   How life began on the earth 

    How the earth came into existence and how life began on the earth, no one knows 1.________  (exact) , as it happened so long ago. However, according to a widely 2. ________  (accept) theory, the universe began with a "Big Bang" that threw matter 3. _________  all directions.  After that, atoms began to form and combine to create stars and other bodies. Between 4. 5 and 3. 8 billion years ago, the earth became 4. ____  violent that it exploded loudly with fire and rock, producing water vapour and other gases.

   When the earth cooled down, water appeared on its surface. Water had also appeared on other planets like Mars but, 5. ______  (like) the earth, it had disappeared later. It was not immediately obvious 6. ______ water was to be fundamental to the 7. _______ (develop) of life. What many scientists believe is that the continued presence of water allowed the earth 8. ______ (dissolve) harmful gases and acids into the oceans and seas. This produced a chain reaction, which made 9. ________  possible for life to develop.

Millions of years later, life began to develop on the earth, from simple forms to advance ones, from oceans to land, from plants to animals. Finally about 2. 6 million years ago some clever animals appeared. 10.______ they have, in their turn, become the most important animals on the planet.

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