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plays and poems during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, which remain very popular today.
During earlier times, people would probably have learned several ancient Roman and Greek plays.
It was not unusual for writers to produce more current versions of these works. For example, in
Shakespeare"s play The Comedy of Errors Shakespeare borrowed certain details from the ancient
Roman writer Plautus. For his play Macbeth, Shakespeare most likely used a work on Scottish history
by Raphael Holinshed for information. Shakespeare might have borrowed from other writers, but the
intensity(强度)of his imagination and language made the plays his own. While many plays by other
writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art live on.
Shakespeare was also influenced by the world around him. He described the sights and sounds of
London in his plays. His works include observations about political struggles, the fear of diseases, and
the popular language of the city"s tradesmen. Shakespeare"s knowledge of the English countryside is also
clear. His works include descriptions of deep forests, local flowers, and the ancient popular traditions
of rural people.
It would be impossible to list all of the ways in which Shakespeare"s works have influenced the world
culture. But the first and greatest example would be his great influence on the English language. During his
time, the English language was changing. Many new words from other languages were being added.
Shakespeare used his sharp mind and poetic inventiveness to create hundreds of new words and rework
old ones. For example, he created the noun forms of "critic", "mountaineer" and "eyeball". Many common
expressions in English come from his plays, including "pomp and circumstance(装腔作势)"from Othello,
"full circle(绕圈子)" from King Lear, etc. The list of cultural creations influenced by Shakespeare is almost endless. From paintings to television to music and dance, Shakespeare was well represented.
Shakespeare"s plays have been translated into every major language in the world.
Shakespeare became a wellknown writer during a golden age of theater. His years of hard work
paid off.
B．Shakespeare was hardworking when he was a student.
C．The experience of living in London helped a lot with Shakespeare"s works.
D．Shakespeare became rich later because of the popularity of his works.
B．The Comedy of Errors
C．Macbeth
D．Othello
B．Because he produced too many works that nobody else could do.
C．Because he was a rich and influential person of his time.
D．Because his works were rich in imagination and language.
B．the main features and styles of Shakespeare"s plays
C．how culture influenced Shakespeare and he influenced culture
D．Shakespeare"s greatest influence on the world culture
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Liverpool, England, as he accompanied his brother on a walking tour.He was impressed by the
park"s winding paths, open fields, lakes and bridges.Perhaps the most wonderful things of all was
that the park was open to everyone.
A moment beginning in 1840 to set aside park land on New York City"s Manhattan Island had
a successful result in 1856 with the purchase of 840 acres of rocky and swampy (沼泽的) land,
bought with about $5 million in state funds.Olmsted"s chance of meeting with a project organizer led
to his applying for the job of the park manager.In 1857 Olmsted was appointed manager of the
proposed park, and the clearing of the site began.
Calvert Vaux, a British architect, asked Olmsted to collaborate with him on a park design, and
Olmsted agreed.Vaux saw the park as a work of art, while Olmsted saw the park as a place for
people to escape the noise of the city.Together they invented a plan that would give the persons and
animals living in the city a quiet, green park and would also preserve and increase the good qualities
of the natural features of the land.The commissioners voted in favor of Vaux and Olmsted"s plan, and
in 1858, the two became the official designers of New York City"s Central Park.
It took cartloads of topsoil to build Central Park"s gentle slopes, shady glens, and steep, rocky
ravines.Five million trees were planted, a watersupply system was laid, and bridges, arches, roads
and paths were constructed.The park officially opened in 1876, and today, well over a century later,
people still escape the noise of the city in Olmsted and Vaux"s great work of art.
1. What is the text mainly about?
A. A history of the planning of Central Park.
B. An engineering plan for Central Park.
C. A biography of Frederick Law Olmsted.
D. A guided walking tour of Central Park.
2. Olmsted became manager of Central Park because of________.
A. his friendship with Calvert Vaux
B. his hard work in clearing the land
C. his winning a design competition
D. a chance of meeting with one of the park"s organizers
3. The underlined word "collaborate" in the third paragraph means "________".
A. disagree
B. comment
C. vote
D. work together
4. Which of the following is TRUE about Central Park?
A. It is out of date nowadays.
B. The designers came from the same country.
C. It is an old park in America.
D. It is only for people who can well afford it.
ambassador for young people"s literature. She is only the second person to hold the position. She
replaces writer Jon Scieszka, who had served since 2008.
The librarian of Congress, James Billington, said Ms Paterson "represents the finest in literature
for young people". He spoke of the importance of reading in the lives of American young people.
Ms Paterson has written more than thirty books. She is among only five writers to have won two
Newbery Medals. These are among the most important children"s book awards in the United States.
Bridge to Terabithia won a Newbery Medal in 1977. Her book Jacob Have I Loved won
the award in 1981.
Katherine Paterson"s books for children are often quite complex. Bridge to Terabithia includes
adult themes like depression and death. The book has caused debate because of its place on school
library bookshelves. Some parents think it is too adult for young children. Ms Paterson says the idea
for the book came from a real life experience. Her son"s best friend died in 1974 when she was struck
by lightning.
Katherine Paterson is seventyseven. She began writing as a young mother with three children. But
she says her interest in writing came as a surprise. As a child she had thought about becoming a Christian
religious worker in foreign countries like her parents were.
Katherine Paterson spoke to a gathering of children when she was named ambassador on January
fifth in Washington. She said, "Read for your life. Read for your life as a member of a family, as a part
of a community, as a citizen of this country and a citizen of the world."
B．children with best books on adult themes
C．writers with best books for grownups
D．children with best books on nature
B．It won a Newbery Medal in the 1980s.
C．Some people think it"s for adults only.
D．The idea for it came directly from real life.
B．showed great interest in writing books
C．hoped to take part in religious activities
D．began writing books with serious themes
B．1981
C．2009
D．2008
played an energetic mixture of jazz and country songs. He was also an inventor.
The electric guitar and recording devices he created changed the sound of popular music and greatly
influenced rock and roll.
Les Paul is best known for creating one of the first solidbody electric guitars and the eighttrack
recording device. He also perfected new recording methods to give special effects to his music.
Les Paul was born Lester William Polfuss (POLLfuss)in 1915 in Waukesha, (WAHkuhshaw)
Wisconsin. By the age of nine, he had taught himself to play the harmonica and had built a radio. He also
learned to play the guitar and banjo. He could not read music, but he could play music that he heard.
And he had a good sense of musical structure.
Les Paul was soon performing in country bands in the Midwest. He left high school to perform full
time on radio shows. He performed using the names "The Wizard of Waukesha", "Hot Rod Red" and
"Rhubarb Red". He also started playing music influenced by great jazz guitarists including Django
Reinhardt.
By 1937, he had formed the Les Paul trio. He moved to New York City the next year. Les Pau
l played with many famous performers including the popular singer Bing Crosby.
Around 1941, Les Paul invented his famous guitar. He wanted to make an instrument that could play
a note longer than notes played on a traditional acoustic guitar. He developed a new kind of electric guitar
that had a solid body. On an acoustic guitar, the strings vibrate and the hollow part of the instrument, or
the sound box, also vibrates. Les Paul wanted an instrument in which only the strings vibrated.
In the 1970s, Les Paul made two records with the country guitarist Chet Atkins. One was called
"Chester and Lester". It won a Grammy Award in 1976. Starting in the early 1980s, Paul began playing
in jazz clubs in New York City. He kept on performing weekly until a few months before his death.
1. Which of the following shows the right order of Les Paul"s experience?
a. He moved to New York.
b. He had taught himself to play the harmonica.
c. He performed full time on radio shows.
d. He began playing in jazz clubs in New York City.
e. He invented his famous guitar.
A. abcde
B. bcade
C. bcdea
D. bcaed
2. According to the passage, the author develops the passage ________.
A. in order of time
B. in order of importance
C. by giving examples
D. by listing reasons
3. Which of the following best describes Les Paul?
A. He is a creative man.
B. He is a lazy man.
C. He is a naughty man.
D. He is a crazy man.
4. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. He influenced Django Reinhardt.
B. He had no good sense of musical structure.
C. He could play and read music when he was a child.
D. He made two records with Chet Atkins in the 1970s.
on public assistance in a tiny Edinburgh flat with her infant daughter, Rowling _1_ Harry Potter and The
Sorcerer"s Stone _2_ a table in a caf? during her daughter"s naps-and it was Harry Potter _3_ rescued
her.
Rowling _4_ that she always wanted to write and that the first _5_ she actually wrote down, when
she was five or six, was a story about a rabbit _6_ Rabbit. Many of her favorite _7_ center around
readinghearing The Wind in the Willows _8_ aloud by her father when she had the measles (麻疹),
enjoying the fantastic adventure stories of E. Nesbit, and her favorite story of all, The Little White Horse.
At Exeter University Rowling took her degree in French and 9 one year studying in Paris. After
college she moved to London to 10 as a researcher and bilingual secretary. The best thing about
working in an office, she has said, was 11 up stories on the computer when no one was 12 . During
this time, on a particularly long train ride from Manchester to London in the summer of 1990, the idea
13 her of a boy who is a wizard and doesn"t know it. He 14 a school for wizardry-she could see
him very plainly in her mind. By the time the train 15 into King"s Cross station four hours later, many
of the characters and the early stages of the plot were fully 16 in her head. The story took further shape
as she continued working on it in 17 and caf?s over her lunch hours.
After her marriage to a Portuguese TV journalist ended in divorce, Rowling returned to Britain with
her infant daughter and a suitcase full of Harry Potter notes and 18 . She settled in Edinburgh to be
near her sister and 19 to finish the book before looking for a teaching job. Wheeling her daughter"s
carriage around the city to escape their 20 , cold apartment, she would duck into coffee shops to write
when the baby fell asleep. In this way she finished the book and started sending it to publishers.
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| Benjamin Banneker was born a few months before another great American-George Washington. Benjamin was black, but he was not a slave.He and his mother and his grandmother were free. Benjamin"s grandmother came from England.In America she got a job and worked for many years to pay for her boat trip across the ocean.After working many more years, she saved enough money to buy a farm.Benjamin lived with her for a while.She taught him to read and write and do arithmetic. Benjamin"s neighbors knew that he was clever.They were not surprised when he built a large wooden clock.He made each piece after studying a small pocket watch.The clock made him famous, for it was one of the first clocks built in America.People from other places began to send hard problems of all kinds for Benjamin to settle. Thomas Jefferson learned of Benjamin Banneker"s ability to settle hard problems.He asked Banneker to help build the city that was to be the capital of the United States-Washington, D. C. Banneker worked hard on the plans for the city.He marked where the streets and buildings-the Capital (国会大厦), the White House, and many others?should be built. Later, L"Enfant, the Frenchman who had designed the new city, had a quarrel, and went back to France in anger.He took all of the plans with him.The workmen couldn"t build without any plans to follow. For a while it seemed that the plans for the capital might have to be changed.But Benjamin Banneker remembered the plans he had helped draw.He drew each again just as he once had built each piece of his clock. If it weren"t for Benjamin Banneker, Washington, D. C.might look very different from the way it does today. 1. Benjamin Banneker is remembered to this day mainly because________. A. he made one of the first clocks in America B. he used to be an assistant to L"Enfant, who had designed the city Washington C. he designed the city Washington when L"Enfant left D. he was able to build the city Washington as L"Enfant left with his plans 2. When Banneker built a large wooden clock,________. A. people in America showed no surprise B. his name spread all over America C. he became the first man in America to build a clock D. people came from other places to congratulate him 3. Thomas Jefferson asked Banneker to help build the city Washington because he was told that Banneker was________. A. famous B. clever C. hardworking D. serious 4. In building the city Washington, Banneker showed ________. A. he had a good memory B. he was never tired of working C. he feared no difficulties D. he was good at drawing |