World Book Day falls on April 23rd every year，but do you know that it is also Shakespeare Day? Everybody may have heard of Shakespeare，but do you know how many plays he wrote?
Shakespeare’s plays have three kinds：tragedies，comedies and histories. His most famous play is the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet，which deals with two young lovers who are not allowed to marry by their parents. Other tragedies include Hamlet，Othello，and Macbeth.
Shakespeare’s comedies include Much Ado About Nothing ,A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night is a play about unclear identities. Two twins are shipwrecked (遭海难)and the sister，Viola，dresses up as her brother，Sebastian，who she thinks is dead. It’s funny，because the brother reappears and there’s a big love problem going on：Viola is in love with the Duke，who is in love with Olivia，who falls in love with Sebastian except that she doesn’t realize that Sebastian is actually Viola dressed up！Everybody falls in love with the wrong person，but it is all made right in the end.
Some of his history plays，such as Antony and Cleopatra，Richard III and Henry V, are based on the lives of real historical people. In Antony and Cleopatra，Cleopatra becomes Antony’s girlfriend and Antony becomes so crazy about her that he loses control of the army. Cleopatra kills herself in the end and Antony kills himself too.
Shakespeare’s plays can he very difficult sometimes. Some of the themes they deal with are heavy，so they almost always include a lighter subplot with characters that are not so important. They are often used in tragedies to lighten the mood of the play and to keep the audience interested in the main plot.
1.Which of the following plays is best－known to people?
A.Twelfth Night. B.Antony and Cleopatra.
C.Romeo and Juliet. D.Much Ado About Nothing.
2.Which is a comedy character according to the text?
A.Othello. B.Sebastian.
C.Antony. D.Hamlet.
3.What can we know about Shakespeare’s history plays?
A.Some of them are developed from real historical people.
B.There are only three famous history plays.
C.They are more difficult than tragedies and comedies.
D.Real historical events can he found in every history play.
4.What is the purpose of the subplot in Shakespeare’s plays?
A.To lead the development of the main plot.
B.To help the audience understand the plays.
C.To make the difficult plot of the plays simple.
D.To relax the audience and make them follow the main theme.
I am Peter Hodes, a volunteer stem courier. Since March 2012, I've done 89 trips of those , 51 have been abroad, I have 42 hours to carry stem cells（干细胞）in my little box because I've got two ice packs and that's how long they last, in all, from the time the stem cells are harvested from a donor(捐献者) to the time they can be implanted in the patient, we’ve got 72 hours at most, So I am always conscious of time.
I had one trip last year where I was caught by a hurricane in America. I picked up the stem cells in Providence, Rhode Island, and was meant to fly to Washington then back to London. But when I arrived at the check-in desk at Providence, the lady on the desk said: “Well, I’m really sorry, I’ve got some bad news for you-there are no fights from Washington.” So I took my box and put it on the desk and I said: “In this box are some stem cells that are urgently needed for a patient-please, please, you’ve got to get me back to the United Kingdom.” She just dropped everything. She arranged for a flight on a small plane to be held for mere-routed(改道)me through Newark and got me back to the UK even earlier than originally scheduled.
For this courier job, you’re consciously aware than that box you’re got something that is potentially going to save somebody’s life.
1.Which of the following can replace the underlined word “courier” in Paragraph 1?
A.provider B.delivery man
C.collector D.medical doctor
2.Why does Peter have to complete his trip within 42 hours?
A.He cannot stay away from his job too long.
B.The donor can only wait for that long.
C.The operation needs that very much.
D.The ice won’t last any longer.
3.Which flight did the woman put Peter on first?
A.To London B.To Newark
C.To Providence D.To Washington
假定你是李华，你的英国朋友John发来邮件，询问你们复课的情况。请你回复邮件，内容包括：
1. 班级规模；
2. 高考变化；
3. 复习备考。
注意：1. 词数100左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear John,
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Yours,
Li Hua
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（A), 并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下画一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词。
2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Never have I experienced such a special time. It is three months since I begin to study at home. I’ve become accustomed to have classes online. Between classes, I can discuss which I don’t understand in class with my classmates. I can also turn my teachers for help at any time. I take exercise every day at home to stay health. My parents and I usually watch news over dinner to get the latest informations on the disease. We feel sorry for the people who are affected by them both at home or abroad. Leaves turn green and flowers become fragrantly in the school yard. I hope everything returns to the normal. And I’m expecting to go back to school soon.
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
If you’re a grandparent, shaking a leg with your grandchild might benefit both of you. That’s the conclusion of a new study from Israel, where researchers examined how dancing together 1. (positive) affected 16 grandmas and granddaughters. They’ve discovered it can encourage exercise and can also 2. (deep) ties between the two generations. Dancing “promoted physical activity even when the body was tired and weak,” said the study author. “This emphasizes the significance of the close and familiar relationship as 3. means to promote new experiences, 4. can occasionally seem impossible for the older person.”
The granddaughters teamed 5. their grandmas for three free-form dance sessions. They danced once a week for 10 to 15 minutes in their grandmother’s home. Granddaughters 6. (tell) to mirror their grandmas’ movements, encourage their abilities and let them rest when 7. (need). Videos of the dance sessions, 8. (person) diaries and interviews showed that the sessions led to positive feelings and better mood for the grandmothers. The granddaughters, meanwhile, got a new view on 9. (age).
Both groups were grateful and said the dance sessions strengthened10. (they) bonds, according to the study published recently in the journal Frontiers in Psychology.
My carpenter is a competent, even gifted craftsman. But my old house still makes him feel ________. It was ________ well over a century ago, probably by very poor people, and it ________. My carpenter’s ________ to me: “Move out.” What he doesn’t ________ is that I like it here. It’s my home’s imperfections that make it interesting.
This very thought ________ me just the other day while I was sitting at the counter in a bar. The bar opened in 1931, and little about its ________ has changed over the years. The long countertop has been bent and worn down to its bedrock so ________. Once a visitor asked the owner ________ why he hadn’t ________ it. Not missing a beat and being a man after my own heart, the ________ remarked, “Do you know how many elbows it took to get it this way?” That’s it, then. An imperfect product, like a perfect one, is also the________ of our labor, and as such it needs to be ________ for what it is, rather than what it isn’t.
I’m ________ that, at root, my carpenter________realizes this. Recently, while making a new skylight (天窗) in my home, he ________ wood and had to take a piece from my scrap (废料) pile. The “________” was that my son, when he was little, had burned his name into the board with a magnifying glass. “I’m sorry I had to use scrap,” said the carpenter as we looked up at the burnt ________, “but I didn’t think you’d ________. Does it look OK?”
“Oh yes,” I assured him as I admired his handwork. “It’s ________.”
1.A.delighted B.hopeless C.embarrassed D.confident
2.A.rented B.sold C.built D.purchased
3.A.shows B.stands C.shines D.improves
4.A.attitude B.response C.offer D.advice
5.A.predict B.understand C.guarantee D.prove
6.A.dawned on B.stood for C.depended on D.waited for
7.A.guests B.service C.drinks D.appearance
8.A.fast B.slightly C.much D.easily
9.A.abruptly B.curiously C.rudely D.seriously
10.A.replaced B.attended C.decorated D.withdrawn
11.A.carpenter B.visitor C.owner D.boy
12.A.purpose B.price C.result D.copy
13.A.transformed B.checked C.fixed D.admired
14.A.regretful B.certain C.fearful D.guilty
15.A.also B.even C.still D.never
16.A.cut up B.used up C.put away D.gave away
17.A.advantage B.meaning C.difficulty D.problem
18.A.letters B.pile C.walls D.glass
19.A.enjoy B.change C.mind D.compromise
20.A.reasonable B.worthwhile C.bearable D.perfect
