D: Greetings, learning judge! I don't envy you your job.              1．_______

This is a most troublesome cases.                                        2．_______

P: Greetings! Please seated. Are you Antonio, and                      3．_______

is this your agreement with Shylock? What are you accused for?                                        4．_______

A: Shylock does accuse me of anything. My fate is a consequence of bad fortune.

                                                                                             5．_______

P: Then Shylock must be merciful. He must have mercy on Antonio. 

                                                                                             6．_______

S: Why may I have mercy on him? Tell me that! I have             7．_______

kept my side of the bargain and I expect him to keep him.    8．_______

     P: Mercy brings good. Mercy falls like the gentle rain from the sky

upon the earth．It is twice blessed. It blesses those who gives it, and those

                                                                                        9．_______

who receive it. It's the highest of the highest．We should learnto show mercy on to others. Do you still ask for this pound of flesh?                          10．_______

1.Mercy falls__________gentle rain__________the sky__________the earth.

2.His life shall be __________ the mercy __________ the Duke.

3.How can you hope __________ mercy yourself when you show none. I ask __________ what is mine __________ law.

4.You must cut__________ one pound __________ flesh, no more, no less. And not one drop __________ blood must fall.

5.Shylock must promise to leave the money __________ his death __________ his daughter and her husband.

Read the text carefully and fill in the blanks with proper prepositions or adverbs (仔细阅读课文，填写适当的介词或副词)

1.Mercy falls__________gentle rain__________the sky__________the earth.

2.His life shall be __________ the mercy __________ the Duke.

3.How can you hope __________ mercy yourself when you show none. I ask __________ what is mine __________ law.

4.You must cut__________ one pound __________ flesh, no more, no less. And not one drop __________ blood must fall.

5.Shylock must promise to leave the money __________ his death __________ his daughter and her husband.

The cartoon is jokingly updating Shylock, a leading figure from William Shakespeare’s classic play The Merchant of Venice, to fit into the new age of the Internet. In the play, the Christian merchant Antonio has borrowed money from Shylock ,who is Jewish. Because of their religion Jews like Shylock have been regarded as low and worthless and badly mistreated by the noble-styled gentleman Antonio and his friends, who at that time contained the very Christian society of Venice and indeed all Europe .On account of the conflict between members of the two religions, despite their being willing to enter into business deals, there is little love or friendship between the two.

Shylock agrees to lend Antonio the money but as part of the written agreement he insist that should Antonio fail to repay him on time he must cut a pound of his own flesh from his body and present it to Shylock. This of course would kill him but nonetheless Antonio agrees. In the end, Antonio’s business fails as the ships carrying his goods sink （Antonio is truly a gentlemen but not much of a businessman）,and Antonio has to be forced to threateningly face Shylock and his demands.

In the cartoon, Shylock is a merchant who operates, as many businessmen do today, on the Internet. His website, www.poundoffflesh, com. is probably where Antonio would log on to get terms of his loan. The humor lies in the contrast between the very modern business technology and the very old-fashioned costume Shylock is wearing.

1.We may learn from the text that the writer of the article is for the purpose of ____.

A. grandly advertising the new cartoon to the audience

B. warning us not to borrow money from the merchants like Shylock

C. simply introducing a new cartoon on the net to the public

D. telling readers to be sincere and honest when you deal with your friends

2.The underlined word “contain” probably means ____.

A. control　 B. cover　　　　　　 C .include　　　　　 D. create

3.You will find it very funny when you see the cartoon that ____.

A. large amounts of money go into Shylock’s cashbox

B. Antonio doesn’t suffer from his flesh being cut off his body

C. many famous actors and actress are invited to perform the updated classic play

D. all the characters in the cartoon are not in today’s clothes though they do nowaday business

4.What would be the best title for the text?

A. The E-merchant of Venice

B. Business between Shylock and Antonio

C. Never Borrow Money from Shylock

D. Sow the Wind and Reap（gain） the Whirlwind

The young man insisted that he＿＿＿＿＿nothing wrong and＿＿＿free.

A. did； set       B. had done； should be set

C. do； be set     D. had done； must be set