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【題目】根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容和首字母提示，在下文空格處填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~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（馬夫）at a t【4】. In his spare time, he liked to watch performances on the stage（舞臺(tái)）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（悲劇）u【8】 about 1608, including Handel, Oihello, King Lear, and Macbeth. In his later part of life, he wrote tragicomedies (悲喜劇), 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（十四行詩(shī)）, 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】

這篇文章主要介紹莎士比亞的生平，他的作品和成就。

【1】句意：莎士比亞開(kāi)始上學(xué)，學(xué)習(xí)拉丁語(yǔ)，希臘語(yǔ)，文學(xué)和其他科目。根據(jù)首字母提示，subject科目，可數(shù)名詞；other其他的，后加可數(shù)名詞復(fù)數(shù)，故答案是subjects。

【2】句意：莎士比亞18歲時(shí)與安妮·海瑟薇結(jié)婚。根據(jù)首字母提示，marry結(jié)婚的，get married結(jié)婚，動(dòng)詞短語(yǔ)，故答案是married。

【3】句意：莎士比亞在1586年的某個(gè)時(shí)候去了倫敦。根據(jù)首字母提示，sometime某時(shí)候，副詞，故答案是sometime。

【4】句意：起初，莎士比亞在一家劇院當(dāng)馬夫。根據(jù)首字母提示，theatre劇院，名詞，后文the theatre companies in London…有提示，故答案是theatre。

【5】句意：當(dāng)公司需要額外的演員時(shí)，他就擔(dān)任配角。根據(jù)首字母提示，role角色，可數(shù)名詞；supporting role配角，在這里用復(fù)數(shù)，故答案是roles。

【6】句意：莎士比亞開(kāi)始寫劇本，就像需要表演技巧一樣。根據(jù)首字母提示，as 介詞，像；just as 就像，故答案是as。

【7】句意：16世紀(jì)90年代初，莎士比亞寫了他的第一部歷史劇《亨利六世》。根據(jù)首字母提示，called被稱為，過(guò)去分詞作后置定語(yǔ)，故答案是called。

【8】句意：直到大約1608年，莎士比亞主要寫悲劇，包括 Handel, Oihello, King Lear, and Macbeth。until直到…，until 1608，直到1608年，作時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)，故答案是until。

【9】句意：1613年左右，49歲的他回到家鄉(xiāng)斯特拉特福德，三年后去世。根據(jù)首字母提示，return返回，動(dòng)詞；時(shí)間狀語(yǔ)Around 1613，用一般過(guò)去時(shí)，故答案是returned。

【10】句意：威廉·莎士比亞被廣泛認(rèn)為是英語(yǔ)語(yǔ)言中最偉大的作家。根據(jù)首字母提示，great偉大的，形容詞；定冠詞the后加形容詞最高級(jí)，故答案是greatest。