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《英美文学》作业 Unit 1 1. What year was Shakespeare Born? A 1562 B1564 C 1616 D 1617 2. What was the name of Shakespeares theatrical company? A The King’s man B The Queen’s man C The Chess man D The Lords man 3. All of the following plays are tragedies by Shakespeare except??????? A? Othello??????????? B? Hamlet???????????? C ?The Tempest???????????????????????????? D ?Macbeth 4. English Renaissance Period was an age of 牋牋牋 a. prose and novel牋牋牋?b. poetry and drama牋牋?c. essays and journals牋 d. ballad and songs 5cal company. Shakespeare’s four tragedies are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. 6. Please read the famous monologue and answer the following questions. To be, or not to be ─ that is the question: 　　Whether tis nobler in mind to suffer 　　The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune 　　Or to take arms against a sea of troubles 　　And by opposing end them. To die─ to sleep 　　No more; and by a sleep to say we end 　　The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks 　　That flesh is heir to. tis a consummation 　　Devoutly to be wishd To die ─ to sleep, 　　To sleep ─ perchance to dream; ay, theres the rub! 　　For in that sleep of death what may come 　　When we have shuffled off this mortal coil 　　Must give us pause. Theres the respect 　　That makes calamity of so long life. 　　For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 　　Thoppressors wrong, the proud mans contumely, 　　The pangs of despised love, the laws delay, 　　The insolence of office, and the spurns 　　That patient merit of the unworthy takes 　　When he himself might his quietus make 　　With a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear, 　　To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 　　But that the dread of something after death The undiscovered country, from whose bourn 　　No traveler returns ─ puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, And thus