Question

【题目】根据短文内容和首字母提示，在下文空格处填入适当的词使短文完整。

William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in a town called Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of six or seven. Shakespeare began school, studying Latin, Greek, literature and other s【1】. But seven years later, when his father failed in business, Shakespeare dropped out of school to help his father. in the 1560s and 70s he saw plays by the travelling theatre groups touring Stratford. Shakespeare got m【2】 to Anne Hathaway at the age of 18. They had three children Shakespeare went to London s【3】 in 1586. He was thought to have spent most of his time in London writing and performing in his plays.

In the beginning, Shakespeare worked as a groom（马夫）at a t【4】. In his spare time, he liked to watch performances on the stage（舞台）there. When the company needed extra actors, he took on supporting r【5】. At that time, the theatre companies in London were in need of plays. Shakespeare began to write plays just a【6】 need acting skills.

In the early 1590s Shakespeare wrote his first historical play c【7】Henry VI. After the play was put on, it became a huge hit. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories. Shakespeare then wrote mainly tragedies（悲剧）u【8】 about 1608, including Handel, Oihello, King Lear, and Macbeth. In his later part of life, he wrote tragicomedies (悲喜剧), also known as romances.

Around 1613, at the age of 49, he r【9】 to his hometown Stratford, where he died three years later. It was on 23 April 1616.

William Shakespeare is widely considered the g【10】writer in the English language. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets（十四行诗）, two long narrative poems, and some other works. His plays have been translated into every major living language and arc performed more often than those of any other playwrights.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】subjects

【2】married

【3】sometime

【4】theatre

【5】roles

【6】as

【7】called

【8】until

【9】returned

【10】greatest

【解析】

这篇文章主要介绍莎士比亚的生平，他的作品和成就。

【1】句意：莎士比亚开始上学，学习拉丁语，希腊语，文学和其他科目。根据首字母提示，subject科目，可数名词；other其他的，后加可数名词复数，故答案是subjects。

【2】句意：莎士比亚18岁时与安妮·海瑟薇结婚。根据首字母提示，marry结婚的，get married结婚，动词短语，故答案是married。

【3】句意：莎士比亚在1586年的某个时候去了伦敦。根据首字母提示，sometime某时候，副词，故答案是sometime。

【4】句意：起初，莎士比亚在一家剧院当马夫。根据首字母提示，theatre剧院，名词，后文the theatre companies in London…有提示，故答案是theatre。

【5】句意：当公司需要额外的演员时，他就担任配角。根据首字母提示，role角色，可数名词；supporting role配角，在这里用复数，故答案是roles。

【6】句意：莎士比亚开始写剧本，就像需要表演技巧一样。根据首字母提示，as 介词，像；just as 就像，故答案是as。

【7】句意：16世纪90年代初，莎士比亚写了他的第一部历史剧《亨利六世》。根据首字母提示，called被称为，过去分词作后置定语，故答案是called。

【8】句意：直到大约1608年，莎士比亚主要写悲剧，包括 Handel, Oihello, King Lear, and Macbeth。until直到…，until 1608，直到1608年，作时间状语，故答案是until。

【9】句意：1613年左右，49岁的他回到家乡斯特拉特福德，三年后去世。根据首字母提示，return返回，动词；时间状语Around 1613，用一般过去时，故答案是returned。

【10】句意：威廉·莎士比亚被广泛认为是英语语言中最伟大的作家。根据首字母提示，great伟大的，形容词；定冠词the后加形容词最高级，故答案是greatest。