首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
We know that he was baptized on April 26, 1564, so that somewhere between April 20 and April 23, four hundred years ago, was bor
We know that he was baptized on April 26, 1564, so that somewhere between April 20 and April 23, four hundred years ago, was bor
admin
2011-02-11
26
问题
We know that he was baptized on April 26, 1564, so that somewhere between April 20 and April 23, four hundred years ago, was born an Englishman who possessed what was probably the greatest brain ever encased in a human skull.
William Shakespeare’s work has been performed without interruption for some three hundred and fifty years everywhere in the world. Scholars and students in every land know his name and study his work as naturally as they study their holy books — the Gospels, the Torah, the Koran, and the others.
For centuries clergymen have spoken Shakespeare’s words from their pulpits; lawyers have used his sentences in addressing juries; doctors, botanists, agronomists, bankers, seamen, musicians, and, of course, actors, painters, poets, editors, and novelists have used words of Shakespeare for knowledge, for pleasure, for experience, for ideas and for inspiration.
It is hard to exaggerate the debt that mankind owes. Shakespeare’s greatness lies in the fact that there is nothing within the range of human thought that he did not touch. Somewhere in his writings, you will find a full-length portrait of yourself, of your father, of your mother, and indeed of every one of your descendants yet unborn.
The most singular fact connected with William Shakespeare is that there is no direct mention in his works of any of his contemporaries. It was as though he knew he was writing for the audiences of 1964 as well as for the audiences of each of those three hundred and fifty years since his plays were produced.
On his way to the Globe Theater he could see the high masts of the Golden Hind in which Sir Francis Drake had circumnavigated the globe. He lived in the time of the destruction of the Spanish Armada, the era in which Elizabeth I opened the door to Britain’s age of Glorlana, and he must have heard of Christendom’s great victory at Lepanto against the Turks which forever insured that Europe would be Christian. Shakespeare’s era was as momentous as our own. Galileo was born in 1564, the same year in which Shakespeare was born, and only a few years before John Calvin laid the foundation for a great new fellowship in Christianity. And yet Shakespeare in the midst of these great events, only seventy years after the discovery of America, did not mention an explorer or a general or a monarch or a philosopher.
The magic of Shakespeare is that, like Socrates, he was looking for the ethical questions, not for answers. That is why there are as many biographies of a purely invented man Hamlet, as there are of Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, or Franklin D. Roosevelt. We are not sure of many things in this life except that the past has its uses and we know from the history of human experience that certain values will endure as long as there is breath of life on his planet. Among them are the ethics of the Hebrews who wrote the Decalogue, the Psalms, and the Gospels of the Holy Bible, and the marble of the Greeks, the laws of Romans, and the works of William Shakespeare, There are other values which may last through all the ages of man — Britain’s Magna Carta, France’s Rights of Man, and America’s Constitution. We hope so, but we are not yet sure. We are sure of Shakespeare.
Ben Johnson was a harsh critic of Shakespeare during his lifetime. They were contemporaries and competitors. Johnson, a great dramatist, did not like it when his play Cataline had a short mn and was replaced by Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, which had a long run. Yet when Shakespeare died, Johnson was moved to a eulogy which he called "Will Shakespeare":
Triumph my Britain.
Thou has one to show.
To whom all scenes of Europe Homage owe.
He was not of an age, but for all time.
The passage aims to______.
选项
A、present a brief introduction to Shakespeare
B、comment on Shakespeare contribution
C、appreciate Shakespeare’s works
D、discuss Shakespeare’s writing style
答案
B
解析
主旨题。作者从头至尾都在评价莎翁作品的伟大之处,所以B正确。文章并没有对莎士比亚的生平进行介绍(A),赏析莎翁的作品(C),或者讨论其写作风格(D)。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/f1uYFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
TheValueofAnimalResearchToparaphrase18th-centurystatesmanEdmundBurke,"allthatisneededforthetriumphofamis
______,oneofBritain’slargestports,rosetoworldwidefameinthe1960sasthebirthplaceoftheBeetles.
ChangesarebeingseeninthesocialvaluesheldbytheChinese,inthe90’s.Whatdoyouthinkisthemostessentialvaluefor
Atpresentcompaniesandindustriesliketosponsorsportsevents.Tworeasonsareputforwardtoexplainthisphenomenon.Thef
Values,Characteristics,PersonalHabitsandCourtesiesofAmericansAlthoughAmericanshategeneralizationsandholdaneth
Computershaveaidedinthestudyofhumanitiesforalmostaslongasthemachineshaveexisted.Decadesago,whenthetechnolog
Thecostsassociatedwithnaturaldisastersareincreasingrapidly.Asaresult,officialsingovernmentandindustryhavefocus
1Whilethemissionofpublicschoolshasexpandedbeyondeducationtoincludesocialsupportandextra-curricularactivities
ExpositionExpositioniswritingthatexplains.Mostofthebooksinuniversityli-brariesareexamplesofexposition.Alth
Humanbeingsarecuriouscreatures,andinnothingmorecuriousthanintheformsofdiversionwhichtheydeviseforthemselves.
随机试题
步进电动机的输入信号是什么?输出轴的转速和位移与哪些因素有关?
抗精神病药物治疗中,下列哪种疾病禁忌使用
下列哪项属相反配伍
A.以病人作为受试对象的试验B.以人作为受试对象的试验C.人体实验时必须要做到真正的知情同意D.选择受试者的时候需遵循的E.保障受试者身心安全公平原则是
剪贴板上的内容可以被粘贴多次。()
GreditMonitor模型对有风险贷款和债券进行估值的理论基础是()。
读木桶效应(组成木桶的木板如果长短不齐,那么这只木桶的盛水量,不取决于最长的那一块木板,而是取决于最短的那一块)图,完成以下题。下列影响我国不同省区人口合理容量的因素中相当于木桶短板的是()。
人们根据已知的信息,利用熟悉的规则解决问题,从给予的信息中产生逻辑的结论是()。
_______forthefactthatshebrokeherleg,shemighthavepassedtheexam.
建设方与中标单位签订开发合同后,应及时通知其他未中标的投标单位,并退还其(28)。
最新回复
(
0
)