Willam Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth .He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.
He was born in 1564 in England. At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor when he finished school at the age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer’s daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter .Later they had twins. In1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind .No one knows why he left or what he did between 1585 and 1592.
At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays .He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.
At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired (退休) and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world..
【小题1】Shakespeare wrote many famous plays except（除了） __________.

—What’s this in English, Jack?

—It is a jacket.

A．Its               B．He’s            C．She’s           D．It’s

 完型填空（每小题1分，共10分）

A: Hello! I    36    Helen. What’s    37    name?

B: I’m Bob. Nice to meet you, Helen.

A: Nice to meet    38   . Bob,    39    this in English?

B: It is a(n)    40   .

A: A pen?

B: Oh, no, I am sorry (对不起). It is a    41   .

A: Is   42    your pencil ?

B: Yes, it is.

A: What    43    is it?

B: It is red. What are these in your hand (手)?

A: They are    44   .

B: How many (多少) are they?

A:    45   .

1.A. am            B. is             C. are

2.A. you          B. your               C. my

3.A. Bob       B. you           C. your

4.A. what       B. what are     C. what’s

5.A. pencil   B. pen           C. eraser

6.A. pen     B. pencil       C. ruler

7.A. this          B. these       C. those

8.A. name     B. color          C. number

9.A. ruler    B. rulers        C. ruler’s

10.A. Two     B. Four  C. Three

One evening two young men were walking in the street together. They tried to find a chance to steal something. The clock struck twelve. Most of people went to bed. Quietly they came to a house. There were no lights in the house and it seemed that everyone in the house had fallen asleep. Standing at the front door gate, one said in English in a low voice, “You wait here. I’ll go round to the back door and then get into the house…” Suddenly out of the house ran a dog, barking at them. The two men were very frightened and ran away as fast as they could. They dare not stop until they got into a lonely place. The man said: “It’s too bad. I hadn’t expected that the dog could understand English.”
【小题1】The two young men were ________.
A. workers     B. doctors      C. thieves
【小题2】There were no lights in the house because _______.
A. the people in the house had been out
B. nobody lived there.
C. It seemed that everyone was asleep.
【小题3】“One said in English to the other in a low voice.” Here means _______.
A. he knew English
B. he didn’t want to let anyone else understand what they would say
C. both A and B
【小题4】“Did the dog understand English really?” _______.
A. Yes, it did.   B. No, it didn’t.   C. No, but it wanted to understand.
【小题5】The dog ran out of the house and barked at them only because ________.
A. it understood English    B. it heard them talking    C. the two men frightened it

— What’s this in English?     
—________ a map.
A. This is             B. They are            C. It’s