📝 选词填空 | 莎士比亚生平之谜
💡 本文核心提示
选词填空(Section A)考察的是对词性和上下文逻辑的精准把握。本文讲述了尽管莎士比亚的作品家喻户晓,但其生平细节却因其出身平民(皮革商之子)而记载稀少。我们在阅读时要特别注意名词、动词、形容词和副词的填空位。
全篇单词(含介词、代词、副词甚至所有干扰选项和数字)均已 100% 录入词库,点哪里翻译哪里!
全篇单词(含介词、代词、副词甚至所有干扰选项和数字)均已 100% 录入词库,点哪里翻译哪里!
📖 原文精读与填空
It is commonly believed that the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. But it is impossible to know the (26) ______ day on which he was born.
Church records show he's baptized on April 26, and 3 days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newly born baby. Shakespeare's date of death is (27) ______ known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 and had retired to Stratford three years before.
Although few plays have been performed or analyzed as extensively as the 38 plays Shakespeare wrote, there are few surviving details about his life. This (28) ______ of biographical information is due primarily to his social (29) ______: he was not a noble, but the son of a leather trader.
Shakespeare (30) ______ attended the grammar school in Stratford, where he would have studied Latin and read (31) ______ literature. He did not go to university and at age 18 married Anne Hathaway, who was eight years his (32) ______. They had four children, including the twins, Hamnet and Judith. Nothing is known of the period between the birth of the twins and Shakespeare's (33) ______ as a dramatist in London in the early 1590s.
In a million words written over 20 years, he (34) ______ the full range of human emotions and conflicts with a (35) ______ that remains sharp today. As his great contemporary the poet and dramatist Ben Jonson said, “He was not of an age, but for all time.”
📥 选项库 (Word Bank)
答案与核心语法逻辑
👉 点击查看:答案速查
26. E (exact) | 27. C (conclusively) | 28. L (scarcity) | 29. H (position) | 30. J (probably)
31. B (classical) | 32. M (senior) | 33. D (emergence) | 34. A (captured) | 35. I (precision)
31. B (classical) | 32. M (senior) | 33. D (emergence) | 34. A (captured) | 35. I (precision)
📝 点击查看:逐题硬核解析
- 26. E (exact): 位于定冠词 the 和名词 day 之间,需填形容词。意为“无法得知他出生的确切日期”。
- 27. C (conclusively): 修饰动词 known,需填副词。意为莎士比亚的忌日是“确定地”为人所知的。
- 28. L (scarcity): 位于 This 之后,作主语,需填名词。由于传记信息极其有限,因此填“缺乏/不足”。
- 29. H (position): 位于 social 之后,需填名词。后文解释他不是贵族而是商人儿子,这属于“社会地位”。
- 30. J (probably): 位于主语和谓语动词 attended 之间,需填副词。意为他“大概/很可能”上过文法学校。
- 31. B (classical): 修饰名词 literature。在 16 世纪,文法学校的学生通常阅读“古典文学”(如拉丁语著作)。
- 32. M (senior): 位于 his 之后。Ann 比莎士比亚大 8 岁,即她是他的“年长者”。
- 33. D (emergence): 位于所有格 Shakespeare's 之后,需填名词。指莎士比亚作为剧作家的“出现/崭露头角”。
- 34. A (captured): 句子缺谓语动词,且时态为过去。意为他在作品中“捕捉/表达”了人类的情感与冲突。
- 35. I (precision): 位于冠词 a 之后。意为他以一种至今依然犀利的“精确度”描写了冲突。