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William Shakespeare was born 400 years ago and spent his childhood in his hometown, Stratford-on-Avon. Little was 1 about his childhood though many stories are 2 , some of which may be 3 . He probably went to Grammar School at Stratford. At 13 he 4 to leave school as his father 5 some losses and became poorer for a time. So William had to 6 his own living. At the age of 18 he 7 Stratford for London, a city which was rapidly 8 . All types of people were to be 9 in it. Here Shakespeare 10 travelers, students, and scholars, and his 11 was stirred (激发) by the stories they told. He soon found some work in a 12 . Before long he became an actor and writer of plays 13 . There were a few theatres in London. One of the most famous of these was 14 the Globe. Shakespeare himself 15 one of the owners of this theatre. Shakespeare's reputation (名声) as a writer of 16 began to grow. He made 17 of the writing of others and found 18 in the old poets like Chaucer. But by his genius (天才) he 19 all these old stories into masterpieces (杰作) of his 20 . Shakespeare wrote no fewer than 27 plays in his lifetime.
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son would 36 him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it 37 . But Henry proved a 38 . He hated farm work and did everything he could to 39 it. It was not that he was lazy. 40 from it! Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending a gate to sharpening tools, 41 he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of the farm, with its dull tasks, 42 upset him.
Henry was excited by the development in technology that could __43 farmers like his father from wasteful and 44 labor. But these developments, in Henry’s boyhood, had touched farming 45 at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done. So Henry 46 his attention elsewhere. When he was twelve, he became 47 in clocks and watches. Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom. 
and watches as objects of Henry’s fascination. Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.
A. learn B. find C. Work D. join