UNIT 5 POEMS 第一部分 阅读(共两节,满分50分) 第一节(共15小题;每小题2.5分,满分37.5分) 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A In the coming months, we are bringing together artists from all over the globe, to enjoy speaking Shakespeare's plays in their own language, in our Globe, within the architecture Shakespeare wrote for. Please come and join us. National Theatre of China Beijing|Chinese This great occasion(盛会)will be the National Theatre of China's first visit to the UK. The company's productions show the new face of 21st century Chinese theatre. This production of Shakespeare's Richard Ⅲ will be directed by the National's Associate Director, Wang Xiaoying. Date & Time:Saturday 28 April, 2.30pm & Sunday 29 April, 1.30pm & 6.30pm Marjanishvili Theatre Tbilisi|Georgian One of the most famous theatres in Georgia, the Marjanishvili, founded in 1928, appears regularly at theatre festivals all over the world. This new production of As You Like It is helmed(指导)by the company's Artistic Director Levan Tsuladze. Date & Time:Friday 18 May, 2.30pm & Saturday 19 May, 7.30pm Deafinitely Theatre London|British Sign Language(BSL) By translating the rich and humourous text of Love's Labour's Lost into the physical language of BSL, Deafinitely Theatre creates a new interpretation of Shakespeare's comedy and aims to build a bridge between deaf and hearing worlds by performing to both groups as one audience. Date & Time: Tuesday 22 May, 2.30pm & Wednesday 23 May, 7.30pm Habima National Theatre Tel Aviv|Hebrew The Habima is the centre of Hebrew-language theatre worldwide. Founded in Moscow after the 1905 revolution, the company eventually settled in Tel Aviv in the late 1920s. Since 1958, they have been recognised as the national theatre of Israel. This production of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice marks their first visit to the UK. Date & Time:Monday 28 May, 7.30pm & Tuesday 29 May, 7.30pm 1.Which play will be performed by the National Theatre of China A.Richard Ⅲ.B.LoveB.e's Labour's Lost. C.As You Like It.D.TheD.e Merchant of Venice. 2.What is special about Deafinitely Theatre A.It has two groups of actors. B.It is the leading theatre in London. C.It performs plays in BSL. D.It is good at producing comedies. 3.When can you see a play in Hebrew A.On Saturday 28 April. B.On Sunday 29 April. C.On Tuesday 22 May. D.On Tuesday 29 May. B I was in a seventh-grade language arts class in an upstairs room in the old red-brick junior high school building. The afternoon sun streamed through high windows that faced the playground. I remember it was on that day that I heard this phrase for the first time: “the little lame balloonman”. It's from in Just-, E.E. Cummings's poem we were reading. Mr. Katz was trying to loosen up our adolescent imaginations to the point where we might appreciate figurative(比喻的)language. There were phrases like “the world is mud-luscious”, and then “puddle-wonderful”. Something began to grow in me as ... ...
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