Shakespeare’s Sister
Let us imagine, since facts are so hard to come by， what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith.
Shakespeare himlf went, very probably 一 his mother was an heiress 一 to the grammar school, where he may have learnt Latin — Ovid, Virgil and Horace — and the elements of grammar and logic. He was, it is well known, a wild boy who poached (偷猎）rabbits，perhaps shot a deer, and had, rather sooner than he should have done, to many a woman in the neighborhood, who bore him a child rather quicker than was right. That escapade nt him to ek his fortune in London. He had, it emed, a taste for the theatre; he began by holding hors at the stage door. Very soon he got work in the theatre, became a successful actor, and lived at the centre of the univer, meeting everybody, knowing everybody, practicing his art on the boards, exercising his wits in the streets, and even getting access to the palace of the queen.
政府采购74号令Meanwhile his extraordinarily gifted sister remained at home. She was as adventurous, as i
maginative, as curious to e the world as he was. But she was not nt to school She had no chance of learning grammar and logic, let alone of reading Horace and Virgil. She picked up a book now and then，one of her brother’s perhaps, and read a few pages. But then her parents came in and told her to mend the stockings or mind the stew(炖锅）and not moon about with books and papers. They would have spoken sharply but kindly, for they were practical people who knew the conditions of life for a woman. Soon，however, before she was out of her teens, she was to be engaged to the son of a neighboring wool stapler(经销商). She cried out that marriage was hateful to her, and for that she was verely beaten by her father. Then he cead to scold her. He begged her instead not to hurt him，not to shame him in this matter of her marriage. He would give her a chain of beads or fine dress, he said; and there were tears in his eyes. How could she disobey him? How could she break his heart?
The force of her own gift alone drove her to it She made up a small parcel of her belongings，let herlf down by a rope one summer’s night and took the road to London. She was not venteen. The birds that sang in the woods were not more musical than sh
100个搞笑视频e was. She had the quickest fancy, a gift like her brother’s, for the tune of words. Like him, she had a taste for the theatre. She stood at the stage door; she wanted to act5 she said. Men laughed in her face. The manager 一 a fat， loo-lipped man 一 howled with laughter. He roared something about puppies dancing and women acting 一 no woman, he said, could possibly be an actress. She could get no training in her craft. Could she even ek her dinner in a bar or roam (游荡） the streets at midnight? Yet her genius was for fiction and lusted to feed abundantly upon the lives of men and women and the study of their ways. At last — for she was very young, oddly like Shakespeare the poet in her face, with the same grey eyes and rounded brows 一 at last Nick Greene the actor-manager took pity on her; she found herlf with child by that gentleman and so 一 who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and confined in a woman’s body? — killed herlf one winter’ s night and lies buried at some cross-roads where the omnibus (公共汽车）now stop outside the Elephant and Castle.
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That, more or less, is how the story would run， if a woman in Shakespeare's day had had Shakespeare’ s genius.销声匿迹什么意思
65. From Paragraph 2，we can find Shakespeare once did all of the followings but_.
A. hold hors at the theatre B. be the centre of the univer
C. perform plays on the stage D. go to the palace of the queen
66. What can we infer from Judith’s teen life?
A. She got less affection from her parents than her brother.
B. She was willing to be engaged to a wool stapler.
C. Her father wanted to make a fortune by her marriage.
D. She was cared for but was expected to live a girl’s life.
67. Which of the following is NOT true about Judith’s genius?
A. She had an unbelievably sweet voice.
梵高耳朵B. She was fond of creating literary works.
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C. She liked acting and was an expert actress.
D. She had a great talent for the tune of words.
68. What is the right order of Judith’s life events?
a. She was forced to be engaged.
b. She found herlf pregnant by Nick Greene.
c. She had no chance of schooling.
d She fled away from home to London.
e. She put an end to her life.
A. c-a-b-d-e B. a-c-b-d-e C. c-a-d-b-e D. b-c-a-d-e形容眼神的词语
69. Why did Judith commit suicide to end her life?
A. The fat manager rejected her and even insulted her.
B. She married the wrong person and couldn’t face it.
C. She couldn’t tolerate the violence of the poet’s heart.
D. She was caught between her ideal and the reality.
70. From the passage, we can safely draw the conclusion that in the age of Shakespeare _.
肉饺子煮多久才熟A. women couldn’t make their achievements at any level
B. women could enjoy themlves domestically and socially
C. women couldn’t possibly act on the stage or write plays
