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Unit 3The Million Pound Bank Note
(时间：100分钟分值：120分)
选择题部分
第一部分阅读理解(共两节；满分35分)
第一节(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分)
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England has been the birthplace of most of the great English-language theatre written throughout history. Most of the plays in England that are truly famous have something in common. They usually come from a playwright (剧作家) with several famous plays.
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is considered the most famous British playwright. Shakespeare has a large catalogue (目录) of tragedies, comedies and history plays, and each category is home to some of the most famous plays ever written. Hamlet,__Macbeth,__Romeo__and__Juliet,__Othello__and__Julius__Caesar are all tragedies and performed in theatres around the world every year. Famous comedies include A Midsummer Night's Dream and Much Ado About Nothing. In the history category, Richard Ⅲ and HenryⅤ are very famous.
Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw
Several hundred years after Shakespeare, English people began to enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw. Wilde's plays are still popular now, and The Importance of Being Earnest is both performed and studied extremely frequently. A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband are among his other famous works. Shaw and Wilde were born within a few years of each other, but Shaw was a much more productive writer. His most famous plays include Pygmalion and Candida. Shaw's plays are loved so much that an entire theatre company is devoted to performing his works in Niagara-on-the-Lake in southern Ontario.
Harold Pinter
The plays of Harold Pinter certainly have an international presence. His writing was so widely recognized for its importance that he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005. Pinter is especially known for his style of writing. Many of his plays such as Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter and
his first play, The Room, are extremely well known.
1. The writer wrote this passage to ________．
A．advise us to spend more time enjoying plays
B．explain why England has so many wonderful plays
C．tell us about some famous British playwrights and their works
D．tell us the differences among some British playwrights
2. What do the works in the underlined part in Paragraph 2 have in common?
A．They are all Shakespeare's early works.
B．They are all tragedies written by Shakespeare.
C．They are all Shakespeare's famous comedies.
D．They all belong to the history category of Shakespeare's plays.
3. Which of the following plays were most probably written in the same period of time?
A．The Dumb Waiter and A Woman of No Importance.
B．RichardⅢ and A Woman of No Importance.
C．An Ideal Husband and Candida.
D．Candida and Betrayal.
B
Many years ago, on a winter morning, Lily, our only daughter, sat quietly, all her heart put into her work. Every once in a while she would ask how to spell the name of someone in our family, and then painstakingly(费力地) formed the letters one by one. Next, she added flowers and green grass at the bottom of each page with a sun in the upper right corner, surrounded by the blue sky. Holding them at eye level, she was satisfied.
“What are you making, honey？” I asked.
“It's a surprise，” she said, covering up her work with her hands.
It w asn't until later that evening that I noticed the “mailboxes” fastened to the door of each of our bedrooms. There was one for Edward, one for Tom. She hadn't forgotten Peter and baby Paul.
For the next few weeks, we received mail regularly. There were little notes showing her love for each of us and short letters full of tiny things that only a seven-year-old child would notice. I was in charge of retrieving baby Paul's letters, page after page of coloured scenes, including flowers with happy faces.
