1 . People love Shakespeare’s vocabulary and creativity. He used more than 15,000 words in this writing! But Bible’s Old Testament (旧约圣经) only contains 5,642 words, Shakespeare also invented many new terms and phrase.
If someone’s behavior suggested they were not honest and should not be trusted. Shakespeare called them suspicious. If someone was silly and perhaps looked like a fool, Shakespeare found their actions laughable. And for those who offered their opinions on something’s quality, Shakespeare called them critics (评论家). Today, foe instance, food critics and film critics give their opinions on food and film.
The familiar phrase “break the ice” comes from Shakespeare’s play The Taming of the Shrew. The “ice is broken” when people in a group, who have never met before, begin to talk to each other by doing some activities. More common words were first used by Shakespeare including “road”, “gossip”, “lonely”, “bump” and “hurry”.
Four hundred years after his death. Shakespeare surely lives on, in everyday speech, as he most famous writer of all time.
1. Shakespeare’s writings contain __________.
| A．less than 5,642 words | B．less than 15,000 words |
| C．only 5,642 words | D．over 15,000 words |
2. Which of following can replace the underlined word “
suspicious” on Paragraph 2?
| A．meaningful | B．thoughtful | C．doubtful | D．powerful |
3. Whose actions are considered laughable from Paragraph 2?
| A．Dishonest people’s | B．Film critics | C．Food critics | D．Silly’s people |
4. According to Paragraph3, the phrase “break the ice” comes from __________.
| A．a poem | B．a film | C．a play | D．a novel |
