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英语短文赏析 Reading Questions 1. 在段落、篇章层次中本文有哪些反义词？ 2. 在词汇实际使用中，某些词汇具有委婉用法，这些词汇有哪些？ 3. 本文第一自然段在全文发展中起何作用？ 影剧篇 When Artists Distort History (1) King Richard III was a monster. He poisoned his wife, stole the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London. Richard was a sort of Antichrist the King — “that bottled spider, that pois’nous bunch-back’d toad.? (2) Anyway, that was Shakespeare’s version. Shakespeare did what the playwright does: he turned history into a vivid, articulate, organized dream — repeatable nightly. He put the crouch-back? onstage, an