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II. Cloze(每格1.25分)For years scholars have debated what inspired William Shakespeare’s writings. Now, with the helpof software typically used by professors to (10) cheating students, two writers have discovered anunpublished (11) they believe the Bard of Avon consulted to write “King Lear,” “Macbeth,”“Richard III,” “Henry V” and seven other plays.The findings were made by Dennis McCarthy and June Schlueter, who describe them in a bookpublished this month by the academic press D.S. Brewer and the British Library. The authors are notsuggesting that Shakespeare (12) but rather that he read and was inspired by a manuscript titled“A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels,” written in the late 1500s by George North, a minor figurein the court of Queen Elizabeth.In reviewing the book before it was published, David Bevington, professor (13) in thehumanities at the University of Chicago and editor of “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare(7th Edition),” called it “a revelation” for the sheer number of (14) with the plays. McCarthy useddecidedly modern techniques to (15) his evidence, employing WCopyfind, an open-sourceplagiarism software, which picked out common words and phrases in the manuscript and the plays.In the dedication to his manuscript, (16) , North urges those who might see themselves as uglyto strive to be inwardly beautiful, to defy nature. He uses a (17) of words to make the argument,including “proportion,” “glass,” “feature,” “fair,” “deformed,” “world,” “shadow” and “nature.” In theopening soliloquy of Richard III (“Now is the winter of our discontent ...”) the hunchbacked tyrant usesthe same words in virtually the same order to come to the opposite conclusion: that since he is outwardlyugly, he will act the villain he appears to be.In 1576, North was living at Kirtling Hall near Cambridge, England, the estate of Baron RogerNorth. It was here, McCarthy says, (18) he wrote his manuscript. The manuscript is a (19)against rebels, arguing that all rebellions against a monarch are unjust and doomed to fail. WhileShakespeare had a more ambiguous position on rebellion, McCarthy said he clearly mined North’streatise for themes and characters.
10.
(A) map
(B) nap
(C) nip
(D) nab

參考答案

答案：D
難度：困難0.272727
統計：A(1),B(2),C(5),D(3),E(0)

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